Quotes About Human rights

Wherever selling other people's bodies is legal, demand soon outstrips the number of people who want to be prostituted, and trafficking results.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.

I quite understand how we are driven to lead statistical lives, but I repeat that it is the duty of art to make us imagine the particular; to make us understand that the rights of one human being are not a fraction of the rights of more than one, and at the same time that in any situation of collective evil, the suffering is felt by no more than one person; only one feels the bitter agony of injustice, only one dies

I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them.

For the history of the American Negro is unique also in this: that the question of his humanity, and of his rights therefore as a human being, became a burning one for several generations of Americans, so burning a question that it ultimately became one of those used to divide the nation.

In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.

We learned that kicking down doors to free children from carpet factories isn't enough to stop child labour - we had to tackle the underlying poverty in which their families lived, through education.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

I unequivocally support the rights of all people without regard to sexual orientation.

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights