Civil Rights and Human Rights

Famous quotes containing the words civil rights, civil, rights and/or human:

    “A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 2 (1962)

    “Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”
    —Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939)

    “A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man’s appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “Though lads are making pikes again
    For some conspiracy,
    And crazy rascals rage their fill
    At human tyranny;
    My contemplations are of Time....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)