Quotes About Human rights

This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

The ancient world assigned a value to divinely approved order similar to the value we assign to human rights.

This system of discrimination, an inculcated double standard, may vary in content from culture to culture, but it is always unjust. There are thousands of kinds of injustice but there is only one kind of justice - equal justice for all. To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth.

We have always cared more about property rights than human rights in this country. You should know that.

Weve always cared more about property rights than human rights in this country. You should know that.

He thought that he was a human being with rights, when in fact he was just another animal in the zoo.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

And that woman is not politics. She's a person, and she has every right to be here.

When people are forced to respect civil rights and human rights or face legal consequences, they don't like it. Civil rights laws will be scrupulously observed only when people accept that it is morally wrong to oppress or discriminate against fellow human beings. That awareness can come only through education. A law will enable integration in public places, but it does not foster understanding or appreciation in the hearts of people who continue to live with their prejudices.

I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Amnesty International reported that since the start of the second intifada Israel had destroyed 3,000 Palestinian houses in Gaza, throwing over 18,000 Palestinians onto the street. It damaged a further 15,000 houses, in addition to destroying hundreds of factories, workshops, greenhouses, wells, pumps, irrigation canals, and orchards. It uprooted 226,000 trees and

As I began to give interviews and talks about my book "They Take Our Jobs!" And 20 Other Myths about Immigration, published in 2007, I became more and more convinced that a key, central issue that's hampering those of us who support immigrant rights is the absence of a basic, fundamental ability to say "immigrant rights are human rights." Immigration simply should not be illegal. No politician or talk-show commentator is going to risk saying this, but we have to.

If feminism means anything at all, women with power should be addressing their energies to help the girls and women who suffer the pain of genital mutilation, who are at risk of being murdered because of their Western lifestyle and ideas, who must ask for permission just to leave the house, who are treated no better than serfs, branded and mutilated, traded without regard to their wishes. If you are a true feminist, these women should be your first priority.

The Saudi girls were light-skinned and called us abid, or slaves—in fact, the Saudis had legally abolished slavery just five years before I was born.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.