Human Rights Quotes
Prejudice is poison in the veins of the world.
The character of society coincides with how we treat our most vulnerable members of society.
Every precious human being born should have the right to live, love, and maximize his or her potential without suffering from discrimination.
To every person who has never experienced genuine love and kindness, may you still have the strength to find the love and light that exists within your soul to give, thrive, and shine.
The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.
We can be of many nations, but earth is our land.We can be of many races, but we are just one clan.
Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.
Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt.
We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
To be truly free it takes more determination courage introspection and restraint than to be in shackles.
When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.
The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.
Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.