If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Abigail Adams

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Robert Frost

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
Howard Mumford Jones

I have always claimed Americans didn’t want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
Will Rogers

Of equality – As if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself – As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
Walt Whitman

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole.
Kofi Annan

The evolution of the human rights movement clearly illustrates humanity’s ongoing struggle toward creating a better world.
Robert Alan

I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society… it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Nelson Mandela

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Ingersoll

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Gandhi

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
Rigoberta Menchu

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.
Chief Oren Lyons

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.
Roger Baldwin

I feel morally and intellectually obliged to simply conceded that the death penalty experiment has failed…. From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Former US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.
Cesar Chavez

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.
Hannah Arendt

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

No man is above the law and no man below it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Mother Theresa

I’m not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn’t exist? That’s way too convoluted for me.
A. Whitney Brown

There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear.
Aidan White

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).
Robert Nozick

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Dom Helder Camara