I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men who... were disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing ...what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now you're not gonna have a country that can make these kinds of rules work, if you haven't got men that have learned to tell huma...n rights from a punch in the nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle fo...r influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you ...will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was... established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »