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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
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
Are my basic requisites
I refuse to be a competitor
Who struggles for personal rights — Balroop Singh
For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.
— Asa Don Brown
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The rights of others often begins with the fight for justice of one.
— Judith K. Witherow
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
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
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
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
democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.
— Robert D. Kaplan
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 woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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
Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.
— Gioconda Belli
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
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.