It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The Human Rights Act is not a terrorists' charter. It enables ordinary citizens to seek redress when the government breaches fundamental freedoms… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
…I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war.… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world.… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same… — Jim Gibbons Copy Share Image
Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another.… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I don't trust that the big-business part of our coalition is ever going to defend federalism and argue against regulatory capture. I… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
I hope what we can talk about is something that happened, you know, within the last 25 years, the things that are… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content… — William Ellery Channing 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
A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of… — Warren Farrell 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
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
There used to be a joke that women need a reason to have sex, while men only need a place. Does policy… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If in the past, after every lost war, the unlucky vanquished were divested forever of their honor and their equality of rights,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water,… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to… — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
Well, the United States has said that the disarmament of Iraq is the top priority, but we have also noted that there… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed,… — Pope John Paul II 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
The truth is, even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface there are… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of… — Jose James 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
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
Often Americans have heard Donald Trump be very hard on China. But that's not how it's heard over there. In China, his… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
The state should never have instituted and enforced legal property rights in persons, and should not have been in the business of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat… — Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Copy Share Image