“Naskar it! (Sonnet 2855-2857) At birth they tag you with a flag, a script to follow, a tribe to brag - tell… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom… — Siddharth Kara Copy Share Image
“They anti-treatment faction will argue -truthfully- that treatments can be painful, or inhumane, and will even suggest that some treatments are a… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
We've seen in Europe after the recent terrorist attacks a certain retrogression in human rights. It depends on how threatened the Turks… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
“Human rights, dissidence, antiracism, SOS-this, SOS-that: these are soft, easy, post coitum historicum ideologies, 'after-the-orgy' ideologies for an easy-going generation which has… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“The fact that most states are born of violent upheaval does not, of course, mean that disorder leads to order. In writing… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“The anti-psychiatrists held various, sometimes conflicting views but one particular line of reasoning is attributable to all of them—they all pitched their… — Zbigniew Kotowicz Copy Share Image
To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fallujah was a Guernica with no Picasso. A city of 300,000 was deprived of water, electricity, and food, emptied of most of… — Jean Bricmont Copy Share Image
“MR. CORPORATION It happened in Washington in 1886. Gargantuan companies won the same legal rights as regular home-grown citizens. The Supreme Court… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Or why should one refrain from burning hatred, whatever its basis--race, class, or ideology? Such hatred is in fact corroding many hearts… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule of law and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the… — U Thant Copy Share Image
The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“The truth is I don't give a damn why anyone has an abortion. I believe unconditionally in the right of people with… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“This week I was watching the Rachel Maddow Show (you'd love her: she's funny and brilliant and just happens to be a… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
Since my election to Congress, I've always been interested in human rights. I really do believe that's America's strength. Yes, we have… — Ben Cardin Copy Share Image
“It is almost universally agreed upon by all autistics that forced sterilization is a violation of both reproductive rights, and human rights,… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Everything is PR” has become the favorite phrase of the new Russia; my Moscow peers are filled with a sense that they… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“I've come to gamble." The old man's mouth twitched. He put down his shish kebab and leaned toward Percy. "A gamble...how interesting.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“My heart dropped directly into my stomach. And I cursed those fucking goatherds to hell, and myself for not executing them when… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
“Even what may have seemed, in retrospect, like minor quibbles—over the particular wording of sharia clauses, for example—reflected fundamental divides over the… — Shadi Hamid Copy Share Image
I think this president has so badly abused his power, breached his trust in remarkable ways with our Congress, with the American… — Rocky Anderson Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China… Neither membership… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the… — John Rarick Copy Share Image
“What we are against will unite us, while what we are for divides us. Therefore, we should emphasise what we oppose. The… — Alexander Dugin Copy Share Image
“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many… — David F. Ford Copy Share Image
“At first glance, one might assume that a peacekeeping soldier from Pakistan, a diplomat from the United States, and a human rights… — Severine Autesserre Copy Share Image
“All those who prefer peace to power, and happiness to glory should thank the colonized people for their civilizing mission. By liberating… — Jean Bricmont Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately Women these days, complain A LOT about "wanting" to be equal to men, and insist that they "are" equal to men.… — Hamidreza Bagheri Copy Share Image
Dear Youth, please understand that we should avoid completely even small instances of violation of human rights, at our homes, towns, public… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
“The views of the Courts in regard to imprisonment have however undergone modification in the last ten years. Imprisonment is seen more… — V.G. Hiemstra Copy Share Image
There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
We need to learn from history. These same leaders - [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, and far too many Republicans - want to… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“An essential truth about Eisenhower and Dulles’s policy on the Soviet Union is revealed in these minutes. Though they talked tough for… — Alex von Tunzelmann Copy Share Image