Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live..

Take what you got and fly with it..

As thy days, so shall thy strength be..

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..

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience..

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….

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope..

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..

If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece of the MLK dinner. Why am I the only one who….

And nobody had told them that they were short on time..

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….

There's nothing I won't attempt..

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….