Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition. — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
There was a time when women activists asked men to stand up for their rights. But this time we will do it… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Christian fundamentalists seek to roll back women's right to choose in the United States, and then also insist that money against Aids… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
American television is a huge product that is exported around the world and what that means is that what our movies and… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy to place them… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights. — Louis Bacon Copy Share Image
My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights. — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers… — Harriet Harman Copy Share Image
When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an… — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights… — Geoff Downes Copy Share Image
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll was uniting black kids and white kids, and rock 'n' roll is not being given credit... for being just… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not… — Mark Davis Copy Share Image
I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
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