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Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. — Louise Slaughter

It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights ... — Paulo Coelho

In Actual
Human Rights are
"caring" for Humans left on the planet — Haider Ali

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all. — Irene Khan

Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Christians need to be free in standing for their rights — Sunday Adelaja

Respect, reverence, self-esteem
Are my basic requisites
I refuse to be a competitor
Who struggles for personal rights — Balroop Singh

To all those who struggle for human rights for LGTB people — Eli Easton

For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination. — Asa Don Brown

You can't fight for your rights if you don't know what they are. — John Roberts

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. — Jesse Jackson

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. — Sandra Lee

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves. — Thomas Jefferson

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights. — Gelila Bekele

Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them. — Stephen Kinzer

A voteless people is a hopeless people. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

There's a special place in hell for people who mistreat animals. — Tara Sue Me

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights. — Ziggy Marley

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights. — Liv Ullmann

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them. — Eleanor Smeal

Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights. — Clemence Dane

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free-and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror? — Cory Doctorow

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights. — Julius Nyerere

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The privileged liberal position: There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor. — Mohsin Hamid

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work. — Karen Morley

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. — Alexander Hamilton

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women ... Human rights? They couldn't care less! — Isabel Allende

Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights. — Laura Bush

Wild animals are only wild to save their existence...for their survival; but human animals are wild to do harm to their own species — Munia Khan

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. — Chuck Schumer

I detect the activist returning with a vengence. — E.A. Bucchianeri

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough. — Tammy Bruce

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority. — Malcolm X

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands. — Nelson Mandela

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. — Robert G. Ingersoll

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. — Roger Nash Baldwin

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. — Ayn Rand

The rights of others often begins with the fight for justice of one. — Judith K. Witherow

If women die in childbed, that does no harm. It is what they were made for. — Martin Luther

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began. — Erica Jong

You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right? — Milla Jovovich

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society. — David Korten

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law. — Lyndon B. Johnson

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free. — Frantz Fanon

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out. — Anne Moody

Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights — Malala Yousafzai

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that. — Bernie Sanders

is not a manifesto for action, a list of crimes to be avenged, a litany of positions to be reversed or a collection of rights to be wronged. — Sidin Vadukut

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women. — Karen DeCrow

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. — Betty Buckley

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul. — Alexis De Tocqueville

It is unusual," said Cristina, "for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more. — Cassandra Clare

Even if only one person's respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile. — Christopher Gerard

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. — Allan Dare Pearce

Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time. — Junius Williams

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy. — J.M. Coetzee

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. — Ricky Martin

People must not vote thinking the evil will lose, but for valuing their existence — M.F. Moonzajer

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights ... it had to be some silly little Communist. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial. — Hillary Clinton

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past. — Malala Yousafzai

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. — J.M. Coetzee

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? — Ai Weiwei

democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can. — Robert D. Kaplan

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not. — Robert Mugabe

If you're willing to give your life to defend my rights, you can have sex with a pie and I will heat it up for you. — Wil Anderson

Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans. — Ken Mehlman

You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio. — Norman Jewison

The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about. — Faye Wattleton

A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all. — Mark Twain

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own. — Clare Boothe Luce

A people who are intent on getting something-for-nothing from government cannot cavil over the infringement of their rights by that government; — Anonymous

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him. — Robert A. Heinlein

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions. — Penn Jillette

I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit. — Dr. Willie Parker

There's no room for human rights in a government waiting room. — Stephen Clarke

Gratitude is a sign of maturity ... Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others. — Gordon B. Hinckley

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men. — Frederick Douglass

We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all. — Hillary Clinton

Without peace, there is little hope for human rights — Martin Ennals

Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights. — Pope Francis

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat. — Buzz Aldrin

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. — Bob Marley

Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person. — Gioconda Belli

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act. — Rand Paul

Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights. — Gloria Allred

Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway? — John Waters

I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for. — Luke Scott

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. — Sammy Davis Jr.

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all. — Martin O'Malley

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for. — Clarence Day

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky