Sentences with phrase «values human liberty»

The Bible also values human liberty: «Proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants,» says Leviticus 25:10, a verse that was important to our Founding Fathers.

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We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

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He thinks the growing movement to defend human rights and religious liberty, and the Christian - Islamic dialogue in particular, can produce something of real value, as the Christian - Jewish dialogue has: «Just as Christianity has evolved, then, there are reasonable grounds for thinking that Islam will do so, too.

While life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are valuable human ideals in themselves, they are by no means «God - given rights,» are not guaranteed in Scripture, and when such values are divorced from the understanding that we will answer to God, these rights become some of the greatest instruments of death, enslavement, and sadness the world has ever seen.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prospehuman rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prospeHuman Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

R. Clarke Cooper, executive director for National Log Cabin Republicans, said the values of protecting human freedoms and individual liberty that espouses are conservative values.

All governments in the region and continent, the President stressed «need to collaborate to ensure that the countries of Africa adhere to and maintain common values of governance, i.e. the principles of democratic accountability, respect for individual liberties and human rights, and the rule of law.

«It's important that we re-inspire people with our values - fairness, liberty and democracy and protecting human rights... We need to bind together the New Labour voters and the traditional voters.

The only way for us to respond to this vast array of challenges is for likeminded nations and peoples to come together and defend the international order that we have worked so hard to create — and the values of liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law by which we stand.

Those values free speech, liberty, human rights and rule of law are embodied here in this place and shared by free people around the world.

On civil liberty and criminal justice, they have remained true to liberal values and human rights in ways that the other parties, Labour more than the Tories in some respects, have not.

In a further sign of European rumbles, the former cabinet member Kenneth Clarke, whose departure was announced on Monday, said it would be unthinkable for the Conservative party to advocate pulling out of the European convention on human rights, saying it was the basis of British values of liberty and justice for which Britain had fought the second world war.

Again, as members of the Commonwealth, the President noted that Ghana and the United Kingdom continue to share common values of democratic accountability, good governance, respect for individual liberties and human rights, and the rule of law.

The right to strike «is essential to realizing [Charter values of human dignity, equality, liberty, respect for the autonomy of the person and enhancement of democracy] through a collective bargaining process.»

This is radically and fundamentally inconsistent with the societal values of human dignity and liberty which we espouse, and is directly contrary to the presumption of innocence enshrined in s. 11 (d).

This is truth, this is the reality of CAIR, who stands before the court and demands that we «by our own hands» provide them with all the protections and liberties afforded an organization or individual who wishes to be a part of a democratic country yet have utterly no intention of abiding, now or at any time in the future, by the dictates of a lawful, democratic society which values and holds sacred, human rights, freedom, rule of law, women's rights, gay rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and many other freedoms.

This value - oriented approach views humans as inherently driven to maximize their creative choices and interactions in order to gain a heightened sense of liberty, awareness, and life - affirming emotions, and the therapist and person in therapy cooperate in order to set therapeutic goals and work to reach the established milestones that may help promote positive change.