“God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Hope and optimism are irrepressible but there is a deep underlying premonition that the opposition to change is likely to be vicious. Often the anxious question is asked: will such an oppressive regime really give us democracy? And the answer has to be: democracy, like liberty, justice and other soc…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.”— Stokely Carmichael, voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu
“I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a priviledge; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.”— Stokely Carmichael, americanradioworks.publicradio.org
“Fellow citizens, in the name of your rights and liberties, which I believe have been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath.”— Sam Houston, amazon.co.uk
“No tyrant or usurper can ever invade our rights so long as we are united. Let Mr. Lincoln attempt it, and his party will scatter like chaff before the storm of popular indignation which will burst forth from one end of the country to the other. Secession or revolution will not be justified until leg…”— Sam Houston, en.wikiquote.org
“I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.”— Sam Houston, famoustexans.com
“"Capital-punishment states are the worst animal states and the worst for the handicapped.” All this makes Temple passionately angry, and passionately concerned for humane reform: she wants to reform the treatment of the handicapped, especially the autistic, as she wants to reform the treatment of ca…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“Yeah, that's going to be a problem. It's gonna be a problem for them. This a clear violation of your rights as a consumer. It's an infringement on your constitutional rights. It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous.”— Larry David, Jackie Chiles, Phil Morris, imdb.com
“When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?”— John Tyler, azquotes.com
“The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.”— John Tyler, azquotes.com
“All we hear from the censors is ‘What about the children?’ It’s a very emotional issue, but you can’t let the rights of children negate the rights of adults.”— Al Goldstein, filthy.media
“Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.”— Larry Flynt, esquire.com
“I think the most frustrated I've been lately is reading a speech that Senator Fulbright made in which he indicated that the country is damned because we are spending so much in Vietnam instead of spending it here to take care of the poor and underprivileged -- this from a man who has never voted for…”— Lady Bird Johnson, thoughtco.com
“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights”— Desmond Tutu, bbc.com
“I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attrib…”— Desmond Tutu, en.wikiquote.org