Quotes About Human rights

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

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

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

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

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

Without peace, there is little hope for human rights

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.