Quotes About Human rights

There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.