Human Rights Quotes

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.

If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work so hard and defend it and fight for it.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.

We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.

Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

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

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

Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

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.

Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

The right to life is the first among human rights.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.