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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare"
Barack Obama, President
"I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety"
Frederick Douglass, Author
"The soul that is within me, no man can degrade"
Frederick Douglass, Author
"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work"
Frederick Douglass, Author
"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race"
Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences"
P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist
"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America"
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor
"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn"
Pope John Paul II, Clergyman
"Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
"For goodness sake, will they hear?, Will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
"A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
"The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory"
Evita Peron, Statesman
"I believe that every person has the right to live in peace and security"
Volodymyr Zelensky, President
"I believe that every citizen has the right to be heard. We need to listen to the voices of our people and take their concerns seriously"
Volodymyr Zelensky, President
"I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted"
Jerry Hall, Model
""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
"Ultimately, property rights and personal rights are the same thing"
Calvin Coolidge, President
"Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws"
Calvin Coolidge, President
"The people must have the power to elect their leaders and hold them accountable for their actions"
Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President
"Democracy is not only the right to vote, it is the right to know what is happening in the country"
Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President
"No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed"
Clarence Darrow, Lawyer
"And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense"
William Blackstone, Judge
"Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture"
William Blackstone, Judge
"This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story"
Neil Young, Musician
"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"There is something about poverty that smells like death"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State"
Edward Abbey, Author
"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It had to be some silly little Communist"
Jackie Kennedy, First Lady
"The Native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity"
Charles Eastman, Author
"Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?"
Mary Astell, Writer
"I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face"
Nancy Pelosi, Politician
"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government"
Bernard Baruch, Businessman
"I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
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