Sentence examples for rights speaking from inspiring English sources

They've included messages challenging abortion rights, speaking skeptically about immigration and quoting biblical condemnations of homosexuality.

In America, given the centrality of the struggle for civil rights, speaking up for liberty has often meant speaking up for the state.

He remains one of the country's most fearless defenders of human rights, speaking out on issues from the Boko Haram insurgency to the aggressive legislation curtailing the rights of gays and lesbians.

"Appalling violations of the most basic human rights are occurring in Syria," said the official, Navi Pillay, the high commissioner for human rights, speaking in Geneva at the opening session of the Human Rights Council.

"We have very clearly stated that we have not at any time fired at the no fire zone," said Mahinda Samarasinghe, the minister for disaster management and human rights, speaking to The Associated Press.

He is still campaigning for human rights, speaking out most recently against the Burmese junta and perhaps soon, as some in the ANC are now doing, against Mugabe.

We can demand our rights, speak out.

Either way, these simple but profound rights speak to all of us.

He championed human rights, spoke out against nuclear weapons and opposed the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

She has campaigned for women's rights, spoken out on behalf of victims of forced evictions and publicly supported fellow human rights activists.

This year, Hillary Clinton had Astrid Silva, a twenty-eight-year-old undocumented immigrant and activist for immigrant rights, speak at the Democratic National Convention.