Quotes About Human rights

two white men were put on trial for a particularly gruesome set of murders in the French Congo; to celebrate Bastille Day, one had exploded a stick of dynamite in a black prisoner's rectum. Copying

One planter in Georgia argued that a former slave had shown himself "certainly unfit for freedom" because, "impudently," he didn't allow himself to be whipped.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Individual natural human rights are considered one of the great contributions of the glorious Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, so the professor thought he was on safe ground in asking such a thing of the miserable Middle Ages. Well, what do you know; a few years later, medievalist Brian Tierney's The Idea of Natural Rights traced this concept back to medieval philosophers, including St. Thomas Aquinas.

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There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.

Any law which runs counter to the good of man is no law at all.

It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it and they would all go to jail! Because Torture is against the law!

Only when we prove that international law and the human rights of all mankind are greater than any villain can we vanquish evil.

four essential human freedoms": speech, worship, and freedom from want and fear.

I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.

Churchill loathed Communism because of the attack it made 'on the human spirit and human rights', he said in July 1920. 'My hatred of Bolshevism and Bolsheviks is not founded on their silly system of economics, or their absurd doctrine of an impossible equality. It arises from the bloody and devastating terrorism which they practise in every land into which they have broken, and by which alone their criminal regime can be maintained.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

should not enslave another. Slavery is an awful business.

or as swift as men, but did we not have the same right to live freely and make choices?

People are beginning to realise," the doorman of the Stonewall Inn observed a few days after the riot, "that no matter how 'nelly' or how 'fem' a homosexual is, you can only push them so far.