Sentences with phrase «humans are citizens»

Before humans are citizens of states, they are active participants in society.

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The ceremony was held at Newfoundland's World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, where Rev. Sean Moon prayed for «a kingdom of peace police and peace militia where the citizens, through the right given to them by almighty God to keep and bear arms, will be able to protect one another and protect human flourishing.»

But they also sent a strong and hateful message to a substantial proportion of their fellow citizens, and their fellow human beings.

The collection of that data — the genetic sequences of 160,000 citizens, along with their medical and genealogical records — was made possible by the Icelandic government, and the storage and analysis of that data was overseen by deCode, a Reykjavík - based human genetics outfit that, since its founding in 1996, had struggled to stay afloat financially.

Civil Liberties — Our rights as human beings and citizens of the world are threatened by political corruption, police militarization, government intrusion and mainstream media disinformation.

The human costs have been equally terrible, with millions of US citizens suffering.

Which is an incredibly chilling response when you consider how few rights — including human rights — Chinese citizens have.

In previous cases recorded by the human rights organizations, citizens were denied access to plane tickets because they failed to follow a court ruling.

Whether 12 ordinary citizens can ignore as jurors what they know as human beings is another question.

Used by world leaders and regular citizens alike, Twitter is a social media platform that has undeniably transformed the way that humans interact.

The idea of basic income — in which the government gives all citizens a small monthly stipend — has grown popular in tech circles, not in the least because it's seen as a possible solution to the looming problem of robots, artificial intelligence, and automation taking jobs away from human workers.

Equal human rights are for all citizens, not only for those of the Muslim faith!

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But as the footage of the real aftermath of Hurricane Sandy came into view, the nation and its citizens and leaders alike have quickly realized this is not a political platform, but a human crisis.

In the broadest of human terms it is no unique indictment that the average American citizen finds it hard to care very much about what the CIA has done.

To put it another way, it is the person, not the self, whose nature is inextricably bound up in the web of obligations and duties that characterize our actual lives in history, in human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.

Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.

The fact that he is a citizen of a particular state does not deprive him of membership to the human family, nor of citizenship in the universal society, the common world - wide fellowship of men.»

Eduardo Galeano said at the Mexico Congress: «In the soulless world which we are forced to accept as the only one possible, there are no citizens, just consumers; there are no nations, just companies; there are no cities, just agglomerations; there are no human relationships, just commercial competitions» (Media Development, 1/1996: 22).

When you make a career of being intolerant toward your fellow human beings as well as American citizens (as Mr Sprigg has), a response of intolerance shouldn't come as a surprise.

Funny how folks continue to question Obama's religion but are comfortable with a Mormon Bishop that treats women as second class citizens and believed blacks weren't human until 1978...

Funny how folks continue to question Obama's religion but are comfortable with Mormon Bishop that treats women as second class citizens and believed blacks weren't human until 1978...

... one can change human institutions, but not man; whatever the general effort of a society to render citizens equal and alike, the particular pride of individuals will always seek to escape the [common] level... In aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable barriers, in democracies, they are divided by a multitude of small, almost invisible threads that are broken every minute and are constantly changed from place to place.

Around the ambos and pulpits in our churches on Sunday morning gather the citizens of the human city to hear and celebrate a redeeming word that, were it fully effected, would mean the triumph of the New Jerusalem over Babel.

If, however, one regards the human person to be social by nature, then the function of the state is not to possess its citizens but to serve their social needs for each other.

iv) The UD is designed to protect citizens against violations of human rights by States and governments, even if ineffectively.

They rather think of just laws as a source of human well - being, for which every citizen should be grateful.

It was the announcement by Mukherji and D' Sousa that the Christian Community had decided to forgo special communal representation in the legislature and other communal safeguards so that there would not be political exploitation of increase of numbers through conversion that there was a spontaneous decision in the Constituent Assembly to include propagation of religion as a fundamental human right of the citizen.

If you want to know / understand how God wants us to be human and so with this thought, please listen to every bit of Jeremy Myers and move into relationship with Jesus Christ and your fellow citizens of the world meant for you / us.

The divine aim to call forth civilizations whose meanings and purposes are at one with God's purposes - for - them and whose histories accord with the divine activity succeeds, therefore, only where individual human beings, citizens of those societies, act and believe in ways transparent to the ways of God.

One needs certain virtues like courage, temperance and justice in order to realize human good, but those virtues are also necessary to be a good citizen.

The purpose of the economy, according to Keynes, is to control the material basis of a civilized society, enabling its citizens to explore the higher dimensions of human existence, to discover their own full potential.

Human beings, the Catholic adds, are more than citizens, though; they have another and higher home than their political one.

Such a logic elevates as supreme the abstract notion of the perpetually abiding nation - state, outlasting its citizens and being more valued than the lives of individual humans.

«So far as we are responsive to God, we must live within human kingdoms as creatures destined to be fellow citizens in God's kingdom,» he says in his prologue.

They grant the right of concern to citizens and humans but never confuse the issue by considering the possibility that the clergyman or other professional is also a citizen or human being.

In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Many thoughtful citizens, including eminent scientists, oppose the deciphering and altering of the human gene structure, and are appalled by the proposed commercial uses of knowledge gained from such activities.

He claims that his budget is «rooted in the dignity of the human person» because it gets citizens off the dole, and he finds support for this view in Pope John Paul II's encyclical Centesimus Annus.

This argument» in the mouths of death penalty opponents committed to the sanctity, or at least equal dignity, of every human being» comes perilously close to suggesting that we should use an execution of one of our fellow citizens as a means to desired ends.

However, I believe that Boff's emphasis on the relationships between human beings and communities is of great value, even in his programmatic - pleading form, as well as the idea of a worldwide responsibility for the planet, which every citizen of this world is to bear.

They «can properly imply that in some respects man is only a «plain citizen» (Aldo Leopold) of the planet on a par with all other species, but they are sometimes interpreted as denying that humans have any «extraordinary» traits, or that, in situations involving vital interests, humans have no overriding obligations towards their own kind.

If it is ever to be brought into being in the real world, my basic democracy would, of course, require a fleshed - out superstructure in which real humans could live together — arguing as well as deliberating, competing as well as deciding, united and distinguished by something beyond their shared conviction that equality, freedom, and civic dignity are essential to collective self - government by citizens.

He saw human beings as tending to create a number of small and hospitable polities» the household and the city, especially» whose proportions allow a sane balance between collective duty and individual prudence, universal truth and local idiom, society and the citizen.

«But for citizens and elected officials alike, the basic principle is simple: We must begin with a commitment never to intentionally kill, or collude in the killing, of any innocent human life, no matter how broken, unformed, disabled, or desperate that life may seem.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

We are making our reflections public in the hope that they will help all Americans cut through the static of the sound bites and discuss the linked questions of abortion, human dignity, and American freedom with the moral seriousness demanded of citizens of a democratic republic.

The right - wing moralists make scapegoats of homosexuals, who are now aboveground and who claim the full rights of human beings and citizens.

He knew that for democracy to flourish, it «must learn,» as Martha Nussbaum puts it, «to cultivate the inner world of human beings, equipping each citizen to contend against the passion for domination and to accept the reality, and the equality, of others.»