Human Rights Quotes

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

Without peace, there is little hope for human rights

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.

The disgraceful and shameful construction of walls, the increasing enforcement of security systems and increasing violation of human rights and labor rights will not protect the economy of the United States.

The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal. By "liberal," I mean, basically, support for the rule of law, support for human rights, support for peace; and on all those counts - rule of law, human rights, peace - Israel's record has become indefensible.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of independent unions, etc.) are directly correlated with US government support. The linkage is not accidental; rather it is systematic. The reason is obvious enough. Client fascism often improves the business climate for American corporations, quite generally the guiding factor in foreign policy.