Human Rights Abuses

Famous quotes containing the words human, rights and/or abuses:

“The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn’t love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country ...”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 10 (1962)

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)