Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and chil….

Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Sociall….

A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling, thought, a….

Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pill….

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or ….

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonethele….

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic….

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of….

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general..

Human rights education is much more than a lesson in schools or a theme for a day; it is a process to equip people with the tools they need to live l….

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future..

In the very first debate I was asked am I a moderate or a progressive and I said I'm a progressive who likes to get things done. Cherry picking a quo….

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents..

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people..

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life..

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting right….

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do..

I would ask Donald Trump why every single person in his cabinet has spoken out publicly - and his vice president - against gay rights, and he's never….

If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should g….

Technology that pollutes can also cleanse, production that amasses can also distribute justly, on condition that the ethic of respect for life and hu….

People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content….