Pastoral Resources

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution."