Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent… — Allyson Robinson Copy Share Image
In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights -… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
“For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women,… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Stand up for yourself. Stand up for your rights. If you don't like an agreement or you're not comfortable with it, don't… — Jon Fitch Copy Share Image
