Human-rights Quotes

In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive el...

Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most d...

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that tur...

In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea ...

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and ...

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding o...

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democrat...

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down...

Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued viole...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it...

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact un...

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at ...

Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allo...

Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values.

Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the...

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to t...

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "m...

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the ...

Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact su...

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

With heightened focus on the construction of woman as a "victim" of gender equality deserving repara...

First of all, they came to take the gypsiesand I was happy because they pilfered.Then they came to t...

It is unusual,” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.

Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically ...

The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials ...

You can't have occupation and human rights.

At a lunchtime reception for the diplomatic corps in Washington, given the day before the inaugurati...

The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobb...

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of...

Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity....

If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight’s quest to create gr...

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that plac...

Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of...

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to ga...

It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protect...

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than a...

[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent...

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the l...

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been che...

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happ...

The best criterion by which to decide whether someone has been forced outside the pale of the law is...

THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in his...

But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I ...

human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.

Freedom is alone the unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; an...

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous languag...

To disrespect a person made in the image and likeness of God is a lot worse than desecrating a flag....

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like chara...

Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal...

Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thi...

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and ...

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bul...

Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a gener...

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free...

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day o...

By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individua...

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consid...

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is ...

No voting on who gets to be people.

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

With "gay marriage," the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexual...

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignida...

Human rights violations are nit accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights vio...

Human rights violations are not accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights vio...

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. T...

And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that...

Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, b...

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,The fate of empires and the fall of kings;While quacks ...

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just dra...

How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The ...

Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to...

Under the Iranian code, the worth of a woman’s life equals half of a man’s, a point that often leads...

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a ...

The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that...

Why should the spread of ideas and people result in reforms that lower violence? There are several p...

We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the right...

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work ...

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science ha...

Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by so...

Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is th...

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as t...

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walkin...