Back Quote by Emily Thornberry

The Human Rights Act is not a terrorists' charter. It enables ordinary citizens to seek redress when the government breaches fundamental freedoms enshrined in…

— Emily Thornberry

For far too long, victims' rights have been discussed only in the context of sentencing. Sentencing is very important, but the debate obscures something…

— Keir Starmer

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

— Mitch Kapor

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to…

— Paul Farmer

Liberals have been overselling the threat to reproductive rights for decades.

— Benjamin Wittes

I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.

— J. B. Pritzker

The Human Rights Act has not just given a voice to victims, but to the families who have to fight for the victim where…

— Emily Thornberry

For centuries, the courts took the view that preserving the discretion of the authorities trumped the rights of victims to hold them to account.…

— Emily Thornberry

The key to understanding the impact of the Human Rights Act in the U.K. is to appreciate that civil liberties and human rights are…

— Keir Starmer

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

— Anthony Kennedy

This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The House adjourned without voting on the bill, but the following year a similar bill—mandating equality in hotels and restaurants open to the public,…

— H.W. Brands