Quotes About Human rights

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.

There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today — that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.

I'd noticed that in Britain and America the word Persian is generally used for the 'nice' things: Persian carpets, Persian food and restaurants, poetry and art, that kind of thing. But when it comes to talking about politics, and say, the nuclear programme or human rights, anything that the western media considers intimidating or distasteful, then it's 'Iran' and 'Iranian'.

More costly to America than its "war on terrorism" and our unpaid 19-trillion dollar debt in 2016, is the hidden price tag of systematically dismembered, stolen and incarcerated families and the human rights violations in America's multi-billion dollar failed Foster Care, Adoption and Prison industries.

No nation can be freer than its most oppressed, richer than its poorest, wiser than its most ignorant.

Girls are also human beings, a point often overlooked.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

The excessive punishment of prisoners and the use of the death penalty in the United States, alone in the developed world, have continued to fall most heavily on the poor, mentally ill, and people of color. It was on this subject that I made the best speech of my life.

Being gay is not a disease..wtf are you people on.

Don't deprive another human being of his or her rights, the possibilities are that fate would play the same game with you.

A life built on others being denied freedom is not a life I would want. I don't stand with the ranks of the abolitionists, but neither can I support the institution of slavery.

Each belt buckle that German soldiers wore had embossed upon it 'Got Mitt Uns' (God Is With Us). Over the door of the courthouse in the Palace of Justice complex in Nuremberg were engraved the Ten Commandments. The group that established those commandments was precisely the group that was deprived of citizenship, human rights, and even life, under the laws promulgated in the name of that very city—the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws of 1935.

It serves a demagogue well to set up a scapegoat or a public enemy to unite the populace behind him and by so doing, enable them to overlook incursions on human rights through fear and ignorance. It serves him well to designate a group as other and, for that reason, treat them as inferior, subhuman, and ineligible for the protection of the laws of civilized society.

Konu k?y?mlard?. ?ili'de tüfekleri kullananlar uzmand?lar. Körü körüne ölümlerde "Kimse ya da hiçbir ?ey ölmüyormu? gibiydi,/topra?a dü?en ta?,suya kavu?an suydu sanki." ?air bir ceza ister. K?rm?z? bir hat çizer. Seçti?i yandaki halkt?r, öte yandakiler dü?manlar?.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.

Human beings want to be happy, and they have a right to want to be. Far from being a selfish or ignoble goal, this is one of the distinguishing features of human beings. To the extent that animals can be said to want anything, what they want is to avoid pain and to be sated, but not to be happy.

True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.

No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything.

Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.