Rights Quotes
Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.
People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.
Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf.
If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.
I have tried to fight the impulse, the attraction, but my defenses crumble every time I see him. Since my divorce from Hank I'm practically love-starved.
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.
Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison
The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.
It is unusual, ” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.
Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.
We should not need to have a "Save an Animal Day", Save from what?, It is in fact "Save from who". It is Human Kindness, Compassion and Caring that so desperately needs to be saved.
It seems everything in nature that has beauty, also has a price.Let the value of our planets wildlife be to nature and nature alone.
Vegan is just pure love. Love for animals, love for the planet, and love for yourself.
Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?
Why don't people get their children stuffed after they pass away. Why not, I mean you do love them right?
I really don't think it's a case of not caring at all about animals. Instead, I think it's a case of caring so much about one's own self that everything else becomes immaterial.
In a country where even humans are treated brutally, animals must be in a totally desperate condition!
You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat life like ill-fitting wondering underpants, adjust it to be comfortable again
If black and white are too different and separate calories zebras wouldn't have both.
The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
... because nobody wants to see a small creature left to suffer or left by itself out in the bushes.
We, animal and human, come to this time and space to have an experience embedded with our own divine purpose.
Out there is South Dakota, " Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.
God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.
Even if only one person’s respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile.
I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.
Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future
How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.
We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.
The world isn't only meant for humans to enjoy it, it has also a duty to give animals rights and freedom.
I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?
There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.
The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.
It would seem that the right to equality and human rights is far more an exclusive thing than an inclusive thing.
The religious right sees every group trying to achieve equality with them as a threat, because obviously if they become equal to them, THEY won't be able to abuse their human rights anymore.
There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.
We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.
Periapólí can only become the greatest city in the world if every boy and girl is born into a life where anything is possible.
Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.
When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.
God created us all with his love, to be equally treated.No human being is superior over another.