"I feel compelled, as a supporter of human rights, to speak out about the atrocities being committed across Zimbabwe, " McGee wrote, saying the U.S. had received more than 700 reports of violence.
They proclaimed our unalienable rights, so let us speak out for the dignity of every human being and the rights that are universal.
For all these reasons, it is not meaningful to speak of cultural rights or, more broadly, of sustainable pluralism outside of a linked commitment to the political economy of dignity.
He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate, personal attacks, and to thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.
You know, I've been working on this patient's bill of rights for a long time, and I've listened to all the members of Congress speak from my good friend, John Sweeney to the major and to Joan (ph).
CNN: Transcript: Clinton speaks on 'patients' bill of rights'
On December 15, 1791, the United States adopted the Bill of Rights, enshrining in our Constitution the protection of our inalienable freedoms, from the right to speak our minds and worship as we please to the guarantee of equal justice under the law.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- Bill of Rights Day, 2011
Not long after his ruling, Judge Kaplan also found that prosecutors had violated the rights of two former KPMG partners by forcing them to speak to investigators before they were indicted.
Cherie Blair, noted British attorney, human rights advocate and the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, has agreed to speak under our auspices this fall for a limited number of engagements.
Lawyers for Mr Farrakhan argued that the ban was unlawful in interfering with the leader's right to speak with his UK supporters and was in contravention of the Human Rights Act.
Their chief lawyer, Bernard Cohen, had based his case in the end on the equal-rights clause of the 14th amendment, and was keen that the Lovings should listen to him speak.
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Throughout her lengthy career as a public intellectual, she has distinguished herself as someone willing to speak truth to a civil rights establishment that regularly puts its own needs before those of the black underclass that it claims to represent.
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"My job is to stand up and speak out on behalf of children and to do that I use the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, " he said.
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