Aggression Quote by Noam Chomsky

I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways. So lots…

— Noam Chomsky

For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a…

— Nazanin Boniadi

I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who…

— Coretta Scott King

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

— Dan Savage

When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally…

— Gail Collins

“Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, and gay rights, which began to consolidate power in…

— Steven Pinker

The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the civil rights…

— Al Gore

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights…

— Elliott Abrams

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

— Bill Ayers

“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a…

— Rebecca Solnit

Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography,…

— Kofi Annan

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in…

— Breyten Breytenbach