Rights Defenders

Famous quotes containing the words rights and/or defenders:

“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)

“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)