#rights

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#allow #because #black #choice #him

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them. ↗

— John le Carre

#because #been #books #decisions #else

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#cultural #declaration #economic #every #full

Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#disposition #first #importance #individuals #inheritances

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#broad #charter #communicated #conference #courage

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#civil rights #comes #conflict #counted #decades

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#called #declared #felt #i #jewish

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#heart #interest #legal #legal rights #rights

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#day #domesticated #foresee #granted #i

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#activist #animal #animal rights #care #compassion