rightlessness

She diagnosed a condition of 'rightlessness', where refugees can say what they like, but 'their freedom of opinion is a fool's freedom, for nothing they think matters anyhow'.

Red Pepper Jerome Phelps 2010

In the aftermath of World War II, Hannah Arendt was concerned with the condition of rightlessness of the stateless people -- the new human order (or rather disorder) of the 20th century.

Aldo Civico: Colombia: The Calamity of Displaced People 2009

This situation of political rightlessness of women raises a number of as yet unanswered questions.

Poland: Interwar. 2009

Could it be that holding people for years in a limbo of rightlessness, telling them that they may be prisoners until the end of the war on terror, which has no end, and reminding them that their future does not exist, might drive them to suicide?

Balkinization 2006

"To impose a Bill of Rights in the current situation where some have rights and others not, is to entrench the rights of right holders and the rightlessness of the rightless," he said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

For otherwise society would become deadlocked, find itself in a cul-de-sac; truth would become handmaiden to power, right the tool of brute strength - or, rather, it would become rightlessness and injustice.

Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture 1984

From the inception of his new calling, Chief Lutuli was brought face to face with ruthless African political, social and economic realities - those of rightlessness and landlessness of his people.

Portrait of Chief Albert Lutuli ANC President 1952-1967 1967

"Graft," the Russian _habeas Corpus_ Act, shielded the persecuted Jew against the caprice and Violence of the authorities in the application of the restrictive laws, and Russian officialdom held on tightly to Jewish rightlessness as their own special benefice.

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900

Formerly it had been intended to penalize the "useless" or "unsettled burghers" by intensifying their rightlessness; now this plan gave way to the policy of rewarding the "useful" elements by enlarging their rights or reducing their rightlessness.

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900

Following upon the removal of the "black stain" of conscription came the question of lightening the "yoke of slavery," that heavy burden of rightlessness which pressed so grievously upon the outcasts of the

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900