Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's… — Bob Edwards Copy Share Image
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I stand for humanity, no creeds or religion, I defend human rights and will continue to do till the day that I… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish… — Frank Murphy Copy Share Image
If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
What you have is have equal rights, you don't have equal obligations. Not all Arab citizens have the same obligation, namely defending… — Moshe Arens Copy Share Image
Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values… — Bill Delahunt Copy Share Image
I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Article 19 1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference. 2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of… — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Copy Share Image
In the very first debate I was asked am I a moderate or a progressive and I said I'm a progressive who… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights: the right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities, provided only that he does not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice."… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace…Treat all men alike. Give them… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
My son has made me more politically active when it comes to LGBTQ rights. When he came out, I worried about what… — Belinda Carlisle Copy Share Image
I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled… — George Mason Copy Share Image
It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' were sold by Professor Tolkien… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights. — Megawati Sukarnoputri Copy Share Image
when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much.… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
PlayStation 4 won't impose any new restrictions on used games. This is a good thing... When a gamer buys a PS4 disc,… — Jack Tretton Copy Share Image
Out-of-control bureaucrats have put politics over common-sense policy with government mandates that force people to choose between earning a paycheck and violating… — Jim Bob Duggar Copy Share Image
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio. — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of… — Michael Manley Copy Share Image