The government announced that never again will this…

There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate.…

— Julian Bond

“. The understanding that what is good supports basic human rights and anything that threatens it is bad. We do not need a supernatural…

— Al Stefanelli

My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights.

— Andrea Suarez Paz

“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there…

— Haile Selassie I

“When we hear people referred to as animals or aliens, we should immediately wonder, “Is this an attempt to reduce someone’s humanity so we…

— Brené Brown

“It is not that difficult to understand and differentiate between our said rights and our assumption that we solely own them. (...) Your right…

— Claudys Kantara

We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms of discrimination…

— Michelle Alexander

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no…

— Haile Selassie

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst…

— Linda Chavez

The federal government has no business in restricting basic human rights based on sexual orientation, and I am ready to protect equality at every…

— Katie Hill

“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things. But there…

— Sister Helen Prejean

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war.…

— Anonymous

Korra and Aang ultimately stand for freedom, equality, and basic human rights, and I think Mike and I are fine with pushing that agenda.

— Bryan Konietzko

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I believe it is possible to bring an end to mass incarceration and birth a new moral consensus about how we ought to be…

— Michelle Alexander