Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
Thought is the supreme power. The right question will have the right answer.
I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
I'm not a gay rights activist.
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action. All men have the right to live their own life. Democracy must be rooted i...
Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his senses will find less pleasure in a box of Chicken McNuggets than in a pastured chicken or a rare breed of pig. It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-...
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here’s the catch: The right pla...
Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes. An...
The irony of the present day is, the more human rights jurisprudence seems to be fortified, the more there are human rights violations in newer and newer forms and some recidivism all due to the conflicting deductions of protecting even human rights ...
Mummy became a shadow, a woman who had lost herself because she had never found herself. She had always done the right thing, and I had a feeling that the right thing is always going to be the wrong thing, that you find yourself by stepping out of yo...
