Famous quotes containing the words human, rights and/or activist:
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“I wish the women’s rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 2 (1962)