#rights

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#china #civil #civil rights #depression #directions

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#away #between #broad #constitution #country

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran? ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#benefited #countries #democracies #how #human

The battle for women's rights has been largely won. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#battle #been #largely #rights #women

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#human-rights #politics #slavery #suffrage #knowledge

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. ↗

— Marquis de Lafayette

#entire nation #nation #natural #people #republicanism

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. ↗

— Bill Maher

#bill-of-rights #christianity #constitution #politics #religion

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#animal-rights #animal-welfare #vegan #vegetarian #cruelty

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#poverty #rights #science #science

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#civil-rights-movement #creativity #civilization