Human Rights Quotes

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty" "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere." "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America." "When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand." "I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over." "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights That is the way of a whole human being" "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one" "There are some fundamental values that Europe stands for." "Human dignity shall be inviolable." "Connectivity is a human right." "I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century" "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." "For the dead and the living, we must bear witness" "But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court" "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes" "Elie Wiesel is a notable figure with many profound quotes:" "No human being is illegal." "Here are some additional famous quotes by Malala Yousafzai:"