#rights

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#about #advance #governments #how #learn

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#black #civil #civil rights #country #every

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#developed #developed world #greatly #individual #luxury

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#beginning #character #commission #consequence #doubts

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#african #african american #american #angelou #believes

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aim #being #citizen #freedom #freeman

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#alike #come #continued #done #guidance

Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance. ↗

— Ron Davies

#every #express #i #i think #indeed

The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised. ↗

— Ron Davies

#context #every #exercised #freedom #freedom of speech

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress. ↗

— Helene Deutsch

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