Accepting Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.

— Faye Wattleton

“To restrain one's ambitions, in recognition of the rights of others, is a contributor to international order, not an abdication from it.”

— David C. Hendrickson

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

— Wendell Phillips

The respect for the rights of minorities that China's Tibetan and Uighur activists champion would prevent instability that could spill across China's borders.

— Tom Malinowski

The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected.

— Malcolm Nance

Russian scorn for liberal democracy has a long history, and a certain kind of Russian disdain for the West is nothing new. As far…

— Anne Applebaum

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.

— Ronald Reagan

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the…

— David Lloyd George

The fight for democracy is a long-term battle.

— Joshua Wong

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

— Madeleine Albright

Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact…

— Saul Alinsky