Every step Quote by Prashant Bhushan

“In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing violence, it is extraordinary to note how often women are…

— Adrienne Rich

Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns…

— Katherine Dunn

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the…

— Salman Rushdie

The rule of law is the most basic principle on which our Constitution is based.

— Prashant Bhushan

“There are doubtless those who would wish to lock up all those who suspected of terrorist and other serious offences and, in the time-honored…

— Tom Bingham

It is aspiring tyrants who say that 'civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.' Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the…

— Timothy D. Snyder

There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold…

— Edward Snowden

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is…

— James Bovard

When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

“If we enjoy the right to freedom, it is because we accept our responsibility not to harm or harass others. If we expect the…

— Wayne Visser

The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.…

— Atifete Jahjaga