North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights. – W. E. B. Du Bois
What type of ‘person’ is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat – all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say. – Timothy Noah
I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women’s rights, we need to galvanize a global women’s movement. – Zainab Salbi
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 impossibly wealthy. – Silvia Cartwright
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent – that rights are inherent – is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. – Tom Stoppard
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere. – Samantha Power