I do think that all human beings have a moral claim to humane treatment.

But he added, "I can't see what relationship it may have to our moral and legal claim."

(b) we never know that any moral claim is true.

How many people would make such a moral claim in a cynical age?

The poor have the most urgent moral claim on the conscience of the nation.

His point is that the decision of which right to favor very often depends on contested moral claims.

Human beings had no legal or moral claims on anything sacer.

Eastern Europe believes it has a moral claim on this aid.

Beyond security, there is the moral claim established by law.

Its essential feature is that it makes moral claims on how we ought to live.