NaturalPedia > Rights

Quotes about Rights from the world's top natural health / natural living authors

 Email this page to a friend   |  Click here for FREE email alerts

page 1 of 17 | Next ->

"It is classic 1984 language: War is peace, or similarly, freedom means giving up your rights. We can only defend freedom in this country, Bush says, by giving up our rights and passing the Patriot Act, essentially destroying the Bill of rights. You no longer have the right to privacy. You no longer have the right to not be searched. These rights are being destroyed, and yet we have a nation that is so cognitively impaired, thanks to the food supply and prescription drugs that it is being given, that it can no longer make honest decisions." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"However, there are many survivors who refuse to accept such a dismissal and have created organizations to fight for their rights. One such organization is MindFreedom International, which unites one hundred grassroots groups and several thousand members to, as it puts it, "win campaigns for human rights of people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities. . . . Where mutual support meets human rights activism . . . and where democracy meets the mental health system." Even among those survivors resigned to less than a joyous existence, they reject the idea of having less than a meaningful life." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Going to the Dogs The ubiquitous Seymour ("Bud") Vestermark spied on anti-rBGH groups and also infiltrated a number of animals rights organizations in the late 1980s. His name appeared as senior contributing editor on a newsletter titled the Animal rights Reporter, published by Perceptions Press. The Animal rights Reporter claimed to be an "objective analysis of the animal rights movement." In reality, it offered persistently negative reporting on animal rights groups and advice on undermining the movement." - John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (Get the book.)

"In the course of the twentieth century, people in many parts of the world have become conscious of their rights as well as of many persistent violations of them. This development is important, but in itself it is not enough. In the remaining years of this century we must also become conscious of the factor without which neither rights nor other values can be effectively safeguarded: our individual and collective responsibilities. We are not likely to grow into a peaceful and cooperative human family unless we become responsible social, economic, political, and cultural actors. 10." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"They lull the patients into thinking that their rights are being looked after. More than two years after the American Hospital Association "formally adopted" the "Patient's Bill of Rights" and distributed it to all member hospitals, only a fraction of the hospitals had made the "rights" available to patients. We can't really expect the temples of Modern Medicine to enact these reforms, since the very idea that a patient has any rights is totally contrary to the operating concept of the institution. Furthermore, if the patients' rights were really looked after, the hospitals would be closed!" - Robert Mendelsohn, Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Get the book.)

"Jim founded and is president of the Law Project for Psychiatric rights (www.PsychRights.org), whose mission is to mount a strategic litigation campaign around the United States against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock.23 Jim released the documents to the public, including evidence that Eli Lilly pushed the drug for off-label (unapproved) uses and hid the risk of Zyprexa causing pathological weight gain and diabetes—accusations that the drug company has denied.24 The secret documents were featured in a series of NewYork Times articles." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"We can only defend freedom in this country, Bush says, by giving up our rights and passing the Patriot Act, essentially destroying the Bill of rights. You no longer have the right to privacy. You no longer have the right to not be searched. These rights are being destroyed, and yet we have a nation that is so cognitively impaired, thanks to the food supply and prescription drugs that it is being given, that it can no longer make honest decisions." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"The Queen of Sheba was so enamored with pistachios that she was known to have claimed exclusive rights to all pistachio production. In ancient Persia (Iran), couples met underneath the pistachio tree on moonlit nights listening to ripe nuts crack open in hopes that good fortune would be released upon them. Prior to 1976, all pistachios consumed in the U.S. were from the Middle East; the first commercial crop of California pistachios was produced that year. Where Are Pistachios Grown?" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Yet we fear that the proposed cure might be more dangerous than the disease, for to implement such a policy might seriously compromise our rights of privacy, which Fran and I, along with many others, hold quite dear. Even more, the emphasis on personal responsibility misses the point almost completely. As I wrote some time ago, the decision to begin smoking is one embedded in cultural practices. Yet these behaviors can and have been influenced by government action, particularly the regulation of advertising." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"After refuting the cynical thesis that only criminals and felons are incarcerated in the concentration camps, the resolution ends: Although we are in camps of oppression, we are people of freedom and want to announce to the free world our existence and our unequal battle for our rights as political prisoners. We are behind bars as soldiers and citizens of our nations and demand recognition as soldiers, our human rights, and our rights as prisoners of war. We know that only a resolute stance on the part of the free world can secure these rights for us." - Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle: 1939-1945 (Get the book.)

"Is it possible, for example, that the state, which after all has (and must by definition have) exclusive rights to the legitimate use of violence, could not even exist without a criminal justice system? Or what about disappearing the institution of medicine—the subject of this book. In posing such questions, social scientists are really engaging in "thought experiments," without the label and, as a consequence, without theoretical or methodological rigor. In considering the use of thought experiments in sociology, we are doing nothing more than taking method seriously." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"If the eighteenth century presents a vision of medicine as a commodity of the marketplace, and embodiment (in health or sickness) as a franchise shared between practitioners and patients, the nineteenth exhibits medicine as one, or perhaps more accurately, as several, professions, all competing for exclusive rights to interpret and prescribe bodily experience. The theoretical fluidity and syncretism of Enlightenment medicine gave way to a medical culture marked by competing sects, each with its own overarching theory, and each claiming a monopoly on true knowledge of the body and disease." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Supreme Court decided a long list of legal cases on the side of individual and group rights, giving heavier weight to the Bill of rights and to key rights clauses of the Constitution than had any other court. Influential intellectual leaders expanded on the rights concept, embracing it for racial, sexual, labor, and student subgroups within the larger society.278 The right to be sexual, indeed, openly so, was also advocated by the so-called counterculture, the hippies of the late sixties, and by gay men, who were coming out of their closets of shame by the late 1970s." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"More than two years after the American Hospital Association "formally adopted" the "Patient's Bill of Rights" and distributed it to all member hospitals, only a fraction of the hospitals had made the "rights" available to patients. We can't really expect the temples of Modern Medicine to enact these reforms, since the very idea that a patient has any rights is totally contrary to the operating concept of the institution. Furthermore, if the patients' rights were really looked after, the hospitals would be closed!" - Robert Mendelsohn, Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Get the book.)

"Understanding is the primary key to correcting the wrongs in our lives and consistently doing the rights. Education brings understanding that enables us to put the learned principles to work in our lives so we can start to see positive results. Many people die from lack of knowledge. Always be searching for the truth. And, just because something is accepted practice doesn't mean it is the truth. False knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance. Accepting one false principle about health and nutrition erodes the benefits of our gained wisdom." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "All the "wrongs" for the body must be stopped in favor of the "rights." Mental and emotional factors must be addressed. Deficiencies of enzymes and essential cell nutrients must be corrected through proper diet and supplementation. The body pH must be restored to a healthy balance as a top priority to increase cellular oxygen levels. Friendly bowel bacteria must be replenished. Attention must be given to rest, relaxation, and sleep, to allow the body opportunity to heal. The body's immune system must be strengthened." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Health officials, however, fail to inform the public of these rights. The question of taking vaccines is also an issue for adults. There is such a media blitz, especially toward the elderly, to have annual flu shots; yet there is very little evidence that they are effective. In an article entitled The Flu Vaccine Myth, Croft Woodruff presents the case that flu vaccines may actually increase the risk of developing neurological pathologies: ... according to Hugh Fudenberg, md, ..." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.] concept that each of these factors plays a significant, yet independent, role in the etiology of endometrial carcinoma [221, 231, 233-236]. Beginning research also suggests that biomarkers associated with adiposity, such as higher circulating levels of leptin and insulin-like growth factors, and lower levels of insulin-like binding proteins and adiponec-tin, also may be independently linked with increased endometrial cancer risk; however, further research is needed to confirm these findings [10, 237-239]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The Eastern European countries that the CIA has persuaded to hide Al Qaeda captives are democracies that have embraced the rule of law and individual rights after decades of Soviet domination." Oh, good. It's always reassuring to know that hired torturers believe in the Bill of rights. Remember those? • Citizens are guaranteed inviolability of the person. No one may be arrested except by a court decision or on the warrant of a procurator. • Citizens are guaranteed inviolability of the home. No one may, without lawful grounds, enter a home against the will of those residing in it." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Crowded into somewhat larger communities than foraging camps, people now also needed leaders to mediate disputes over domestic matters and foraging rights. Societies changed profoundly as population densities rose and people lived closer to the edge of survival in a more crowded world. Because so many societies were close to exceeding the carrying capacities of their environments, short-term climatic change became an important factor in human existence for the first time. We have long known that long-term climatic change profoundly influenced human evolution and history." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Iceland's dependence on cod and herring has made it vulnerable to sudden climatic change and resulted in firm, even extreme, political stands on fishing rights. Until the onset of the Little Ice Age, the Icelanders also grew a hardy strain of barley in the north, south, and southeast of their homeland. However, the farmers had abandoned barley cultivation in the north by the end of the twelfth century. By the fifteenth century, no one grew cereal crops. Despite occasional experiments, barley did not return for eight cenmries." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. See color plate. abnormally high chloride concentration in the sweat, which constitutes the classical diagnostic test for CF [21]. More recent research suggests that the CFTR protein is a structural component of the chloride channel and may itself account for the channel core [4, 22]. C." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Copyright 2004 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Recommended Intakes for Individuals, 1 Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academies Life Stage Calcium Chromium Copper Fluoride Iodine Iron Magnesium Manganese Molybdenum Phosphoi Group (mg/d) (pg/d) (pg/d) (mg/d) (pg/d) (mg/d) (mg/d) (mg/d) (pg/d) (mg/d) Infants 0-6 mo 210* 0.2* 200* 0.01* 110* 0.27* 30* 0.003* 2* 100 7-12 mo 270* 5.5* 220* 0.5* 130* 11 75* 0.6* 3* 275 Children 1-3 y 500* 11* 340 0.7* 90 7 80 1." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Copyright 2004 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Estimated Energy Requirements (EER) for Men and Women 30 Years of Age* Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academies EER, Menrf (kcal/day) EER, Women" (kcal/day) Weight for BMIC Weight for BMI Height of 18.5 kg/m2 of 24.99 kg/m2 BMI of BMI of BMI of BMI of (m [in]) PAL* (kg [lb]) (kg [lb]) 18.5 kg/m2 24.99 kg/m2 18.5 kg/m2 24.99 kg/m2 1.50 (59) Sedentary 41.6 (92) 56." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Eventually the French drug company Aventis, which held the rights to the drug, signed a deal to provide it for free for five years to the World Health Organization to treat poor patients suffering from sleeping sickness. Bristol-Myers contributed to this program. See "Aventis to Donate Sleeping-Sickness Drugs," The New York Times, May 4, 2001. Also see description of the industry's lack of interest in selling drugs for sleeping sickness by Donald G. McNeil, Jr., "Medicine Merchants: Drug Makers and 3rd World: Study in Neglect," The New York Times, May 21, 2000. 4 transformation in the . . ." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"If social roles, rights, and responsibilities were to be determined rationally, then new and compelling reasons for societies' inequities—for the subjugation of women and slaves, for the power of hereditary elites, for the disenfranchisement of the lower classes and non-white races—had to be sought. Meanwhile, the battle between empiricism and scholasticism (a battle in which each side claimed experience as its talisman, but differed on whether 'experience' meant first-hand observation or classical precedent) absorbed much medical attention." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 1920 Association Drive Reston,VA 22091-1589 800-438-8841 National Association for Gifted Children 1155 15th Street NW, Suite 1002 Washington, DC 20005 202-785-4286 Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational rights (PACER) 4826 Chicago Avenue, South Minneapolis, MN 55417 612-827-2966 Web Resources Alternatives to Dairy Products www.notmilk.com/altmilk.html Cereals Information Sheet www. vegsoc. org/info/cereals .html Go Dairy Free www. godairyfree. org Hidden Animal Ingredients www.cyberparent." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Natural rights," he growled, "is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts." People occasionally appreciate the truth in the same way they appreciate a good joke. It breaks the monotony. But it is to falsehood that they look to organize their lives. Myths stick to them like burrs to a sweater. Warren Buffett, for example, is giving away his fortune because he doesn't want to corrupt his own children with too much wealth. "I have given them enough so they can do anything," he says, "but not enough so they can do nothing." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Patients' rights legislation emerged as a major political issue as the public focused on restricted access to care. The public's esteem for managed care companies plummeted. In 1997, 51 percent of those surveyed said that managed care companies were serving patients well; that figure was down to 29 percent just four years later. The data about the actual effect of managed care tell a very different story. The quality of care neither improved nor deteriorated under managed care." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

page 1 of 17 | Next ->

FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.

TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalPedia.com

This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008, 2009 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.

ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of NaturalPedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.