“For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It was like I was their doll, and I was lost, somehow. My sister's husband brought me to an art gallery. It had a big effect on me.” ArtBigsLostFeltRightsEffectsMonthsHusbandUniversityAfghanistanMy SisterGalleryDollsArt Galleries Author:Malina Suliman
“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
“Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.” WorldIdeasEarthLawFeltCommunityRightsMankindNotionInternationalRealizationCodePerpetualViolationExaggeratedInternational LawComplementUnwritten Author:Immanuel Kant
“Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.” OpportunityIndividualFeltDecisionResultsRightsGroupsEqualConceptsOriginalsCivil RightsBoardsBrownBetrayedInitialsThrustCivil Rights ActBoard Of EducationCivil Rights Act Of 1964 Author:Thomas Sowell
“We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.” PeopleWarWinningFeltForgetIssuesRightsFiguresKingsUnionsWorkersRadicalRisingPrizeCommunistVietnamDrsVietnam WarNobelUnifyingNobel Peace PrizeProminence Author:Barack Obama
“African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and excite in his bosom a lively, deep, decided and heart-felt interest.” MenHeartStatesFeltInterestUnitedLibertyUnited StatesFireRightsSubjectsColorOughtDecidedBreastsBosomsLivelyFree ManHeart Felt Book:Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches Source: Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches
“Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians.” StatesCharacterFeltLeadershipRightsGenerationsImpactCivil RightsLastingGovernorsFuture GenerationTrue LeaderTrue LeadershipPositive ImpactGeorgians Author:Nathan Deal
“It's not often that you get to read something that just feels very original for a star but also something that feels like it's more than just a movie or entertainment. Even though the riots were one of the most pivotal riots in civil rights history, especially for the LGBT community, I knew surprisingly very little about them. You don't learn about Stonewall in schools. It's a bit gross really! So it certainly felt like something that was quite important.” FeelsLittlesImportantSchoolStarsFeltBitsCommunityRightsOriginalsEntertainmentCivil RightsLgbtGrossRiotLike SomethingPivotalLgbt Community Author:Jeremy Irvine
“Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.” PeopleMadeFeltPowerfulCommonRightsViolenceMovementGayActiveAidsVulnerableRelatedVisibleOrganizeGay RightsGay People Author:Dale Peck
“I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book to make it make sense to that language. But one thing that was really important to me was not to italicize any of the words in the languages that were in the stories, because I feel like those foreign words felt just as important and integral to the story as everything else, so I wanted it all to just exist as its own thing.” IfsFeelsWritingImportantBookStoriesWantedLanguageFeltAudienceRightsOne ThingMake Sense Author:Molly Antopol
“And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt.” PeopleThinkingMenHumansSometimesBigsRememberFeltProcessJusticeIssuesRightsHe ManHusbandHuman RightsChiefsGovernorsEleanorImpassionedChief JusticeInternment Author:William A. Rusher
“What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.” BelieveLittlesEndsLawSpiritCoursesHouseI BelieveFeltBitsRealizingWhiteStruggleRightsProgressJourneyPeriodsLittle BitSlaveryCivil RightsBarackRelaxWhite HouseNovemberJim CrowColonial Times Author:Questlove