Top Human Rights Quotes

[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things. But there are basic human rights I believe that every human being has. The...

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...

The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.

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

I have frequently thought to myself, 'If I can teach my daughter one thing, it will be the love of self unconditionally.' Unconditional love and peace are obtainable, but they are only obtainable if I...

If you can cull an animal, or kill a human , and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal.

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...

It's terrifying to think you could become the next statistic.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE...AND REMIND EVERYONE...OF THE FATE...OF THE ENSLAVED...YAZIDI WOMEN

How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible for...

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with sol...

You can't have occupation and human rights.

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

When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.

In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.

Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.

I never dream to become someone important for myself. The truth is that I- I really don't have a personal ambition. My ambition, my dream, it's about the people. It's all about the people. It's for th...

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the rights of property... But we feel that if in exceptional cases ther...

As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incauti...