Civil rights Quote by Paul Farmer

We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many…

— Mary Robinson

What I'm trying to bring attention to is that human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first…

— Nikki Haley

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage…

— Barack Obama

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not…

— Omar Bongo

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are…

— Nikki Haley

An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.

— Ruth Manorama

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to…

— Mary Robinson

We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader…

— Mary Travers

We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be…

— Elizabeth Evatt

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

— Ai Weiwei

To me and to a number of other activists from the U.S., we believe that the human rights movement has to evolve and understand…

— Opal Tometi