At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights..

Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his own happiness in any….

Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a wa….

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murde….

Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life star….

From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood..

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0..

Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democrac….

That term, 'human rights', makes me ill.Human rights are only for 'humans', therefore for the West. And for the rest of the Planet: there, the 'human….

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty..

Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and ….

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society..

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights..

We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority….

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be ….

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money..

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights..

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities..

Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march f….

I want a Supreme Court that understands because you're wealthy and you can give more money to something doesn't mean you have any more rights or shou….

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishones….