Some articles on rights activist, rights, human rights, human rights activist, activist:
... Bella Abzug (1947), social rights activist and a leader of the women's rights movement Mark Barnes (LL.M ... Carter (1941), civil rights activist, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund general counsel, in which capacity he argued Brown v. 1964), civil rights leader, attorney, and educator third President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Felix Cohen (1928), advocate for native American rights ...
... See also History of human rights The specific enumeration of rights has differed greatly in different periods of history ... In many cases, the system of rights promulgated by one group has come into sharp and bitter conflict with that of other groups ... In the political sphere, a place in which rights have historically been an important issue, at present the question of who has what legal rights is ...
... Commission Joan Baez, singer, peace and human rights activist Tom Bernstein, lawyer, businessman and human rights activist Rev ... civil and human rights activist Cecil Bothwell, author, independent journalist, and "green builder" Ellen Bravo, feminist activist Maria Buell, district director of League of ... Joseph Lowery, minister and leader in the American civil rights movement Omar Mercado, deputy district director of League of United Latin American Citizens Kate Michelman, pro-choice activist ...
1942) - Photojournalist for the New York Times, human rights activist Sichan Siv - former U.S ... Monirith Chhea - Artist originally from Phnom Penh Arn Chorn-Pond - Musician and human rights activist Haing S ... producer, musician, entrepreneur, and human rights activist ...
... Mahe Jabeen is program secretary of the Andhra Pradesh chapter of Joint Women's Program, an Indian Women's Organization ... She organizes workshops and training programs on issues like dowry harassment, marital problems, domestic violence, and short-term shelter to women ...
Famous quotes containing the words rights activist, activist, human and/or rights:
“... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, “Be tolerant—even of evil.” Logically the next step would be to say to our commonwealth’s criminals, “I disagree that it’s all right to rob and murder, but naturally I respect your opinion.” Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 2 (1962)
“The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that positions be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one’s contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.”
—Angela Davis (b. 1944)
“... we’ve allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyond fifty, sixty, or seventy—all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics—many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled—because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)