If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

It is the mind that makes the body.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

If the Lord comes and burns - as you say he will - I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.

It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.

When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.