Quotes About Human rights

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

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.

Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights.

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.

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

I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!"

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

In the good old days few people questioned the idea that Dad's decisions were final. Because of the human rights movement, this is no longer true. Rudolf Dreikurs pointed out, "When Dad lost control of Mom, they both lost control of the children." All this means is that Mom quit giving the children a model of submissiveness.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.