Famous quotes containing the words human, rights and/or activist:
“In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itselfonly those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“Dont forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.”
—Frederick The Great (17121786)
“A mans real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he spouts in easy times.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 13 (1962)