Human Rights Quotes

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible.

It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.

Victims should come first.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE... THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE

Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!

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

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

Human rights takes history out of justice.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.