“Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.” NextParentBreakRightsGenerationsHappenedYouthInvolvedPatternsCivil RightsAccustomedNext GenerationStood Up Author:Octavia Spencer
“The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.” IfsYearsGovernmentEvilIndividualBreakRightsInformationProtectBuiltInstitutionsCampaignsCorporationsPrivacyValleysAmendmentsFourthGooglePledgePrivate SectorSiliconSilicon ValleyFourth Amendment Author:Al Franken
“All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why I wanted to use graffiti. It's more open. I don't need people to come to an exhibition. Graffiti gives a voice to the walls.” PeopleNeedsGivingUseWantedCultureFeltVoiceChallengesBreakRightsWallWomens RightsBreak OutExhibitionsGraffiti Author:Malina Suliman
“A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.” LawBlackJusticeBreakRightsTheorySpeechAbuseFree SpeechFree SocietyThrottle Author:Clarence Thomas
“The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.” IfsWayMeanWholeSeemsLyingOpinionBreakRightsLandWillingWallBearsHonorDignityGladDiscussionWomens RightsPublic OpinionUsefulnessProvinces Author:Angelina Grimke
“Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.” HumansIdeasShowsPoliticalPowerfulBreakRightsSpeechUnionsPreparedHuman RightsMarchIntoleranceFreedom Of SpeechTurkeysTabooEuropean UnionStrideRights And FreedomsArmenians Author:Orhan Pamuk
“I think after time goes by and you earn certain rights or you break through certain barriers, you could sometimes, maybe, take it for granted what you have now that you didn't have before. And then that would lead to a certain lack of community, in a way, caring in a way, that I saw before [in gay society].” ThinkingWaySometimesCertainCommunityBreakSawsRightsGayCaringGrantedBarriersBreak ThroughTime Goes By Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?” WorldWealthBreakStruggleTakenRightsWillingDemandAmbitionSlaveWorkersGravesChainsHeightSubmissionCradleParasitesEconomic InequalityLabour Day Author:Joe Hill
“If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion.” IfsShouldOpinionBreakHellRightsCitizensGayTaxesBenefitsMarriedBillsEntitledGay MarriageAmerican CitizensBill Of RightsTax Breaks Author:Jeanne Phillips
“I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.” LongLastsBitsBreakRichRightsStrikesSailTormentChaoticPlunderStunned Book:The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
“The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew Crocker, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, a digital civil rights group, says the government can't make you say what you don't believe. He looks to a Supreme Court case that began in New Hampshire.” WantWritingBelieveLooksHelpingGovernmentBreakCasesRightsGroupsFoundationCourtDon't BelieveSupremeCivil RightsCodeApplesDigitalSoftwareSupreme CourtFrontiersFbiAttorneyIphoneAndrewHampshireNew HampshireCourt Cases Author:Laura Sydell
“Once you empower people and say,' Here you are, now you get to dream the great dream of becoming a full citizen with equal rights and radical improvement in your living situation,' you are creating an illusion which will break one day.” PeopleDreamSituationBreakRightsBecomingCitizensOne DayEqualCreatingIllusionImprovementRadicalEmpoweringEqual Rights Author:Pankaj Mishra
“We want to make certain that every American who stood in silent tribute to Rosa Parks hopes that the Sepreme Court Judge will break silence and speak out clearly for the civil rights that define our unity as a nation.” WantCertainSpeakNationsSilenceBreakRightsJudgingCourtUnitySilentCivil RightsParksTributeSpeaks OutRosaCourt Judges Author:Dick Durbin