To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue...
Of course, women are capable of all sorts of major unpleasantness, and there are violent crimes by women, but the-called war of the sexes is extraordinarily lopsided when it comes to actual violence....
The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.
Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the idea of dreaming of equality became blasphemous. We are not fighting to tinker with reforming a sys...
[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the sa...
No voting on who gets to be people.
Every precious human being born should have the right to live, love, and maximize his or her potential without suffering from discrimination.
We can be of many nations, but earth is our land.We can be of many races, but we are just one clan.
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
What have been called women’s issues are freedom issues. Body control. The right of human beings to control their own bodies is a freedom issue. Respect. The right of human beings to be treated instit...
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can...
In times of war, the law falls s
Human rights violations are nit accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social...
Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around lik...
Human Rights directs my path"~ ~ Minnie Estelle Miller 2011
The Constitution only guarantees the Nigerian people the human rights either in their preamble or substantive provisions in the country.
But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like, and grinds me down into the very dirt! And why? Because, he says, I forgot who I was; he says,...
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