Top Human Rights Quotes

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

Some of the most evil human beings in the world are psychiatrists. Not all psychiatrists. Some psychiatrists are selfless, caring people who really want to help. But the sad truth is that in today's s...

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the l...

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom,' we make a mockery of human rights.

The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The chief significance of the enterprise is therefore...

The thing is we never needed anyone's consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize how much of jack asses they have looked like for not acknowledging o...

An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet ac...

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

Most sexually adventurous women want a man who regards cunnilingus as a basic woman right.

There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it.

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...

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To hi...

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and ki...

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!

I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Se...