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Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I told her how frustrating it is to be a Christian in America, and how frustrated I am with not only the church's failures concerning human rights, but also my personal failure to contribute to the solution.
- Donald Miller
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God
- John F. Kennedy
My civil rights will not be trampled, and I say this not for me but for my children, and all those who yearn to breathe free. Those who make your Apple products at Foxxcon, those who languish in prisons in Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela. Those homosexuals who are stoned to death in the streets of Egypt or Iran, while our so-called civil rights leaders hold coffee klatches with third graders in the White House.
- Glenn Beck
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.
- Gloria Steinem
All men are created equal.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.
- Ayn Rand
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam now wants to be "civil" about killing newborns. He ended his response to questions about approving third-trimester abortions by saying, "So again, as I said in my comments about this earlier, we can agree to disagree, but let's be civil about it." Dr.
- Terry James
Hattaway, an insider and chronicler of the UCM, gives a picture of what the church could face in our hostile Western world: "Apparently the [Chinese] government is using a new method to deal with people when they arrest them. Instead of beating them, they are drugging them with a mind-altering chemical that diminishes the person's mental capacity."23 The Shandong Revival in China was perhaps one
- Terry James
Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.
- Pope Benedict XVI
We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.
- George W. Bush