Human Rights Activist

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

    Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
    Helen Prejean (b. 1940)

    Since woman’s rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?
    Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)