I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
Stokely Carmichael
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating... →
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
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... →
Silvia Cartwright
I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to... →
Neko Case
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
Robert Casey
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the... →
Rene Cassin