Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Lennox

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

Annie Lennox

I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned. Therefore I feel it's incumbent on me personally to just contribute something, to add to a collective voice that needs to be here right now, to build it up to a tipping point, to make the world aware that women's rights still have to be addressed and that the word 'feminism' has been devalued and needs to be reclaimed.

Daniel Kammen

Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for reform, for a quicker process, they're really calling for a restriction of the rights of people to be involved in the planning process.

Constance Baker Motley

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

Conor Oberst

Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.

Clare Short

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

Clarence Darrow

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Claire McCaskill

There are people who have legitimate concerns about false accusations and the impact that can have on a young person's life when they have been falsely accused. Kirsten [Gillibrand] and I are not unaware that that is an issue we need to be concerned about, and that's why we have made changes in the legislation to address not just the rights of the victim, the accuser, but also of the accused.

Daniel Pennac

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

Cynthia McKinney

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

Ann Patchett

It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

Andrew Young

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Andrew Young

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

Andrew Young

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

Chuck Palahniuk

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

Chuck Hagel

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

Angelina Grimke

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

Andrew Cohen

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

Andrew Carnegie

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

Anna Lindh

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

Anna Lindh

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

Angela Davis

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

Angela Davis

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

Andrew Sullivan

...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

Andrew Solomon

We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

Ameen Rihani

The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.

Anthony Kennedy

The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.

Anthony Kennedy

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

Alice Paul

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Alice Schwarzer

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

Allen West

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

Donald Berwick

Right now, we are doing it blindly.

Dorothy Height

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.