Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence..

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people..

My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-ri….

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology,….

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible..

I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitut….

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families..

Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indire….

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things we….

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well..

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is ….

The cases involving the question of whether U.S. courts should be open to claims of international human rights violations brought by foreign persons ….

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot..

Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tr….

Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes n….

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor ….

In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientious….

We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist t….

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights….

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a….

Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine..