Sentences with phrase «not free citizens»

It actually meant that the ignorance of the people is the strength of the government: if people do not know things, or do not have the information to make informed decisions, they are like subjects, not free citizens.

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If you'd rather not have a vehicle of your own, the city has a growing network of public buses on the main boulevards which senior citizens can travel for free on.

These are the citizens of Free Agent Nation, as author Daniel Pink called it in his influential 2001 bestseller, and they've never met a challenge they didn't like.

In September, the chief of Germany's Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, warned that the UK won't get a special deal from the EU on the passports and will need to allow free movement of citizens from EU nations if it wants to maintain the right.

«We, the US,» stipulated Valkenburgh, «we don't ban technology; we find ways to protect our citizens by enabling free expression and innovation.»

Trests are private, and fast to transfer and completely free from fees.The Trestor Foundation has created a mechanism to give out 2000 EUR worth of «Trests» to Greek citizens who want to purchase Trests but do not have access to their euros because of capital controls.

«The principle of living debt - free is not about being good money - citizens for the sake of it.

Greece's citizens not unreasonably regard the State as akin to a mafia organization which they are trying to avoid as much as possible (unless it promises them free goodies to buy their votes — they do of course gladly accept those).

The final phase on the long - term relationship between the UK and EU, however, presents several important questions about economic integration and free trade that Britain's politicians and citizens have not yet agreed upon.

«Though we already pay # 11 billion a year to subsidise a low - wage economy because employers are not paying people enough to live on, volunteers up and down the country are providing a further # 30 million a year in «free» labour to ensure that our fellow citizens in low paid work, on zero hour contracts, or relying on a broken benefits system have enough to eat.

i think an important point of the article is that the situation in burma is extremely dire for regular citizens — they are not free to believe what they wish.

Supporting free markets and limited government doesn't even begin to address the question of how citizens should behave in the market: Can a citizen be guilty of injustice in how he uses his wealth?

Israeli citizens have free universal health care... US citizens do not Israeli citizens have free secondary education... US citizens do not

In like fashion when a man dares declare, «I am eternity's free citizen,» necessity can not imprison him, except in voluntary confinement.

But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?

In thinking about them, we should bear in mind that Lincoln refused to accept the ruling of the Dred Scott Court that blacks — even free blacks — could not be citizens.

As a free citizen in a free country, shouldn't I be able to make that decision for myself?

In the United States more illegal shooting happen in the Washington DC and Maryland area where guns are totally outlawed than in free to carry states like Arizona where I live because chances are in the DC area the hard working and law abiding citizen does not carry a gun.

With 300 million firearms in private hands (one - third of them pistols), the overwhelming majority of gun owners ARE responsible, law - abiding citizens, which is why these horrific massacres are not commonplace, but rather horrific outliers that can never be legislated away (e.g. DC, Chicago, and «Gun Free Zones»).

The base of socialism was an unwritten contract: the citizen was not to attempt to interfere in public life, and the State would guarantee a problem» free vegetation (neither poor nor rich).

And while judges may not inject their personal or sectarian values into cases that come before them, they are free to advocate policies in terms that may resonate with other citizens.

America would remain free not because of any quality in its citizens of spartan self - sacrifice to some nebulous public good, but in the last analysis because of the concern each individual would have in his own self - interest and personal freedom40

I am a FREE AMERICAN CITIZEN and I DO NOT KOWTOW TO MUSLIMS OR ANY OTHER RELIGIOUS IDIOTS no matter what you think of it.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:7 7 We believe that rulers, states, and governments have a right, and are bound to enact laws for the protection of all citizens in the free exercise of their religious belief; but we do not believe that they have a right in justice to deprive citizens of this privilege, or proscribe them in their opinions, so long as a regard and reverence are shown to the laws and such religious opinions do not justify sedition nor conspiracy.

The GOP has lost it's way, the U.S. was NOT founded as a Christian nation it was founded to be free of any religious influenece by it citizens.

Since pastors are free to make political endorsements as individual citizens, just not in their official capacities as leaders of the church, supporters of the Johnson Amendment contend that rather than restricting political speech, the rules protect nonprofits from lobbying interests.

Third, free speech ought not be absolutized because the First Amendment basically protects, not the right of the press to speak, but the right of every citizen to know.

Democracy, to be practiced and implemented with integrity, demands a free flow of information to citizens; it definitely can not be overly censored, curbed, or edited to suit the agenda of the political party in power.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

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.

You, as a citizen, are told that you are free to practice religion... as long as it is one of the three (already established, NOT by our government) approved religions.

Tubbs has his finger on a central tension in any liberal political order: Because a free society requires morally responsible citizens who won't abuse their liberties, that same society must take serious interest in the development of children.

One of the distinctive characteristics of American democracy is its voluntary associations, which citizens are free to join or not to join.

The Law, the Armed Forces, the school should be religion - free so that all citizen can feel comfortable and not discriminated no matter what faith they profess.

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Making free citizens buy something they do not want.

Citizens in a «free» society are free to apply or not apply for work at Hobby Lobby.

It's not like it involved a wave of acceptance of the concept of free love, exploration into knew spiritualism, a reavluation of morality and ethics, and the first real key stages in recognizing that the idealized «Good Christian Family Values» of the 50's were a lie and a sham, that often enough were just a cover for a an abusive house - hold, treating women like second class citizens, and culuraly engrained and supported bigotry.

They shook their heads and said that Paul could have been set free and sent on his way to do what he felt compelled to do if he had not made an appeal as a Roman citizen to Caesar.

Popular sovereignty as the revolutionary principle is not based on the nation alone, but rather on a republican understanding of the social contract, where all citizens are equal and free.

A statement issued by Nana Ato Dadzie and George Loh, lawyers for the three, said the sentence was «harsh and excessive», adding: «We also do not believe that citizens of Ghana ought to be committed to prison for infractions on free expression especially in light of the repeal of the criminal libel law.

Not only does being part of Europe offer British citizens a wealth of opportunities in terms of education and employment, it is also instrumental in protecting our rights and endowing us with the privileges of free travel and a real voice on an increasingly crowded world stage.

«Nnamdi, as a citizen of Nigeria, is free to hold any point of view no matter how displeasing to anyone so long as they are not inciting or provoking any criminal activities.

Meanwhile, the Minority in Parliament says the current state of the free SHS programme was not the one government promised the citizens last year.

If corporations are made up of people... and international corporations are made up of people from different countries... then how do international corporations have the right to free speech in America, considering that their employees aren't all American citizens?

Restricting speech or spending for a corporation does not in any way restrict an individual's ability to exercise their free speech, or to spend, as individual citizens.

It is always dangerous dealing with people who may be intelligent without depth, shrewd without vision, jocular without humour.People whose friends don't like him and courageously describe them as cold and pompous.We heard Kennedy Agyepong openly insult every soul in the Npp including the flagbearer, we heard him call on Akans to wipe off Gas and Ewes from Ghana and heard Osafo Marfo one personality I hitherto admired so much, declare citizens from some particular regions unfit to occupy the executive seat.Nana did not find these inhuman and obnoxious outbursts as insulting, didn't find it expedient bringing these henchmen to order.We heard Ursula who is a spiritual confidant of Nana painfully say on public platform that had it not been free education, many of our northern appointees would have been managers of cows not human beings.This was how far people who are very close to him went.Antwi another close associate courageously referred to Fantes as «fickle minded» fit only for concert shows.

«I would like you to know that I very much hope the Russian authorities would support the principle of free speech for all their citizens and not feel that they have to punish you for your protest.»

This is why not getting free movement and cross border working rights included in the draft withdrawal agreement is such a bitter pill for us to swallow, especially when we hear Theresa May and various government ministers trotting out the line that they've protected us and the3million and that citizens» rights are a done deal.

But the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial, and independent as the lot of humanity will admit can not be enjoyed as long as judges» salaries and allowances are not regularly and punctually paid.