I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.Buzz Aldrin
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.Simone Weil
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.Simone Weil
A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.Tom Stoppard
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.Honoré de Balzac
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.Dwight D. Eisenhower