“I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.” SometimesVoiceRightsGrewCircumstancesGrew UpGratefulVoicelessEarly Life Author:Rebecca Solnit
“I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe in animal testing. If you see me in fur, it's always fake. Sometimes you see me wearing skulls, but those are all from roadkill” IfsWorldBelieveSometimesAnimalRightsDogMy FamilyDon't BelieveFakeVegetarianAnimal RightsTestingSkullsFurAnimal LoveAnimal Testing Author:Kesha
“So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.” FirstsBookSometimesFightingLiteratureWinningRightsSpeechLosingDefenseComicFundAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechComic BookFirst AmendmentFirst Amendment Rights Author:Neil Gaiman
“We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.” PeopleWorldShouldLooksCountrySometimesDemocracyRightsSacrificeWestChinaTendenciesEfficientCriticiseShort SightedAuthoritarian Government Author:Ai Weiwei
“When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.” PeopleTwoSometimesFightingStepsRightsEvolutionCivil RightsSteps Forward Author:Gloria Allred
“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
“Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks who live there. Men do men's work, women do women's work, and so it all gets done and the jackals can't get into the hut and eat grandpa. So, the future of the transgender movement is like the future of all human rights movements: whatever the state of things in your area now, with some work it all gets a little bit better all the time, even if it is sometimes three steps ahead and two steps back.” IfsMenHumansLittlesTwoSometimesStatesDoneThreeBitsStepsRightsMovementOceanLittle BitSurvivalAreasFolksHuman RightsGenderWorking ItTransgenderKenyaGrandpaHutsTanzaniaJackals Author:Kate Bornstein
“The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties can be preserved only by resistance to that which would destroy them. And to defend certain basic God-given rights and liberties is not immoral but righteous.” ThinkingWarSometimesCertainGivenLibertyRightsResistanceOppressionAlternativesRighteousImmoralPacifist Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“Sometimes I feel I have more faith in European ideals than some of my British or French friends. For them, it's a financial burden. For me, Europe is primarily about values, about fundamental rights, freedom, women's rights.” FeelsSometimesValuesRightsEuropeIdealsFundamentalsFinancialBurdenBritishWomens RightsFundamental RightsFinancial Burden Author:Elif Safak
“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
“Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and paid a professional price for it. Behind the scenes, she struggled in a fractious, sometimes violent relationship with her husband and manager and with mental health issues that strained other relationships, including with her only daughter.” SometimesPowerfulBehindsIssuesRightsMovementSceneHusbandDaughterPaidMental HealthIncludingSingersViolentCivil RightsManagersSongwritersGiftedCivil Rights MovementSinger SongwritersPianistBehind The ScenesNinaHealth IssuesOnly Daughter Author:Michel Martin
“Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.” WayKindSelfSometimesHelpingTogetherWaterDecisionRightsGroupsSelf HelpBirthHealthyCleanAll KindsDecision MakingSmall GroupsComing TogetherClean WaterSanitation Author:Melinda Gates