The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. — Joe Andrew Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. — Pasquier Quesnel Copy Share Image
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it… — Eqbal Ahmad Copy Share Image
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
I am not necessarily my clients. I will seek to defend them, to vindicate their rights but that doesn't mean that I… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Our reasons for criminalising squatting are crystal clear - we want to protect the rights of regular hard-working homeowners against the damage… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage. — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the founders was that the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If they are ignored, [Alice] Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. 'Until… — Ben Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image