Top Human Rights Day Quotes

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

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weak...

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

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would arg...

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.

If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.

It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.

Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.

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

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

The city of Paris, France, became a place of refuge for biracial Americans during slavery and at the time of the Harlem Renaissance for black musicians, fine artists, writers and others seeking opport...

We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so...

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, north...