Language Rights

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or rights:

    “It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... are looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)