I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

There is animal rights and animals rights organizations like PETA, then there's animal welfare, which is very different than animal rights.

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

I am very clear that Pashtun rights should be provided.

The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.

It is good that the Canadians are raising the flag among Western countries to raise the issue of human rights abuse throughout the Middle East.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

I think that whenever businesses harm the economy, harm workers, harm consumers, or undermine human rights in any way, then it is the role of the government to make sure that they don't do that and to make sure that markets are fair and they operate properly.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.

The Congress and its kin parties such as the BJP are up to grab the rights of Dalits.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.