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...First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association (First Speech) at the Church of the Puritans, New York City on May 9, 1867. Published in the New York Tribute, 10 May 1867: 8. Truth's Speech has also been called, "Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are...

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The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.

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... to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be rep... ...w that it was a ruse to keep Isabel by Gavin’s side. Had she, by refusing her husband his marital rights, made Isabel even more indispensable to Gav... ...ue, she had been the first to raise a barrier between them when she had refused him his conjugal rights but in the days and months that followed, Ga...

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...egates assembled on October 2. They spent less than two weeks in discussion and at their final meeting on October 19, 1765 adopted the Declaration of Rights and approved its use in petitions to the King and two letters to Parliament. The Declaration of Rights and Grievances raised thirteen points of colonial protest. (Summary from Wikipedia.org)...

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...The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declarati...

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...tional Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corr... ...ed to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration, being constantly befor... ...all the members of the Social body, shall remind them continually of their rights and duties; in order that the acts of the legislative power, a... ..., in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of man and of the citizen: Articles: 1 Men are born an... ... of the citizen: Articles: 1 Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general goo... ...political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and res... ...o do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the ot... ...e which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law. 5. Law can o... ... free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and pri...

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... exorbitant milling fees, pay to use a common oven or wine press. Fishing rights have been stolen. For a few gentlemen there may be no wood for wint... ...ed more like a tired housewife than a person dedicated to writing and the rights of man. I told her how I used to do my three r’s before our cabin f...

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...The sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké were not only outspoken abolitionists, denouncing the evils of slavery, but were early advocates for women's rights. In 1848, Angelina Grimké addressed a crowd at Pennsylvania Hall, in Philadelphia, her last public speech. While she spoke, thousands gathered to protest, and attacked the hall, throwing stones and breaking its windows...

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...In 1848, Thoreau gave lectures at the Concord Lyceum entitled "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government". This formed the basis for his essay, which was first published under the title Resistance to Civil Government in 1849 in an anthology called Æsthetic Papers....

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... that it does not matter who is in power... those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginning....

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...n laws modified by the Tsar allowed five Deputies for the Kazan residents and one for the Azerbaijanis. Other Turks in Turkistan were deprived of the rights to have a representative in the Duma. Among the extant representatives, the Ufa Deputy Kutlukay Mirza Tevkilev was very honorable, honest and knowledgeable, but he was also very old. At the same time, since he was rais...

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...te - Ishwar Sharan ... 217 ▫ St. Thomas And Anti-Brahminism - Koenraad Elst ... 225 ▫ Christian Churches Threaten Dalit Rights - Leela Tampi ... 233 ▫ How Casteless Muslims And Christians Obtain Benefits Meant For Caste Hindus - Vigil Report ... 243 Part Six ▫ Hideaway Communalism In The Indian Express ...

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...ubtful of the signification of "Etir” against (before ?).] b. We have given to Joseph Rabban (the principality) Anjuvannam, along with the 72 Janmi2 rights, such as (going) with elephants and (other) conveyances, tribute from subordinate landholders, and the possession (or revenue) of Anjuvannam, the light by day, the spreading cloth, the litter, the umbrella, the Vaduca ...

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...dvisors, which would undoubtedly have included Alexander Hamilton as perhaps the chief advisor. Hamilton constantly sought to reassure the states’ rights politicians [the Jeffersonians] that state sovereignty would never be jeopardized by the new Constitution; yet he hoped to abolish state sovereignty once the Constitution was adopted. He also promised, during the co...

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...for the right for women to vote, a radical demand that helped launch the women's suffrage movement, leading, ultimately, to the recognition of voting rights for women in the nineteenth Amendment, in 1920....

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A compilation of articles, poems, speeches, and other literary works on women's rights, economics, human rights, and a variety of topics.

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On preservation of the Western rights, freedoms and quality of life in 21st century and beyond

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...easuring the quality of life 5 2.1 Individual happiness and self-fulfillment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Individual rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 Social harmony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 Checks and balances 11 3.1 A...