Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic ….

Atheism has no room for human rights..

If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there o….

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the ….

Whether it is gun control lobby, health care lobby, or abortion, pro-choice lobby, whatever it is, people are always trying to say that it is about r….

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saud….

I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word m….

If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity a….

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or othe….

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. T….

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World Wa….

Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It's a negation of individual responsib….

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen..

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights..

Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal right….

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local….

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that….

I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual….

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditiona….

Bernie [Ecclestone] has not been shy to say one or two controversial things. The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in pub….

To me, my version of feminism, it's co-extensive with human rights and democracy. It's just part of the same fight for everyone being free, and havin….