Human Rights Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Human Rights
Human Rights Quotes & Sayings
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Human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.
— Hayley Williams
As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.
— Marjorie Spiegel
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
— Charlotte Bunch
Gay rights are human rights.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
— Irene Khan
For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.
— Asa Don Brown
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.
— Augusto Pinochet
I am passionate about human rights.
— Hannah Simone
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.
— Stephen Kinzer
I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.
— Pamela Yates
A voteless people is a hopeless people.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
Sexual rights are not only a basic element of human rights but should have an integral part in moves towards Arab reform ...
— Brian Whitaker
What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.
— Hillary Clinton
Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.
— John Prendergast
All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.
— Hillary Clinton
There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.
— Judith Light
I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.
— Theresa May
UPON FACES ANGEL TEARS ... YOUR VOICES IN OUR EARS
— Widad Akreyi
I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.
— Sarah Moore Grimke
If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.
— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do. - Nathan Phelps
— Nathan Phelps
When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.
— Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
— Akbar Ganji
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
— Vladimir Putin
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
— Richard Stallman
The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women ... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
— Isabel Allende
Ponzi schemes don't trickle down, they siphon up.
— Heather Marsh
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
— Liu Xiaobo
Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.
— DaShanne Stokes
Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
— Mother Teresa
We are the children of one creator. We are different in some ways. Yet, we are equal. — Ellen J. Barrier
It is unusual," said Cristina, "for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.
— Cassandra Clare
As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.
— Nelson Mandela
The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
— Ward Churchill
You can't have occupation and human rights.
— Christopher Hitchens
Why should we be denied basic human rights just because we've messed up our relationships?
— Nick Hornby
There's no room for human rights in a government waiting room.
— Stephen Clarke
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
— Barbara Mikulski
During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
— Elliott Abrams
Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
— Buzz Aldrin
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A human being has no natural rights of any nature.
— Robert A. Heinlein
No ideology is worth a Human life.
— Adriano Bulla
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
— John Ortberg
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.
— Mahnaz Afkhami
We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.
— Chen Shui-bian
Without peace, there is little hope for human rights
— Martin Ennals
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.
— Robert Breault
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea. — Benazir Bhutto
Tolerance and human rights require each other.
— Simon Wiesenthal
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
— Liu Xiaobo
To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.
— J.M. Coetzee
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
— Joichi Ito
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
— Andrew Young
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
— Imelda Marcos
No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!
— Widad Akreyi
More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.
— Michael Anti
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights ...
— Jeannette Rankin
No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.
— Raul Castro
Subjecting other living things to pain, suffering, and death is the biggest fault in the human race
— Zoe Rosenberg
We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
— Evan Bayh
There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Labor law violations are alive and well in the USA.
— Steven Magee
You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.
— Robert D. Kaplan
I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit.
— Dr. Willie Parker
This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
I'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights.
— Taslima Nasrin
