Human Rights Quotes

"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves" "Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed" "Women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights" "Poverty is the worst form of violence" "Nothing else tears at our freedom quite like fear" "A people free to choose will always choose peace" "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty." "Liberty is the breath of life to nations." "This is the struggle of every person: be free or be a slave." "If someone is gay and searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" "The essence of human rights is the right to have rights." "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself" "Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions" "Privacy is a fundamental human right" "It is not the prerogative of men alone to bring light to this world" "Human freedom is an artifact of the organization of human society. " "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons" "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are" "The greatest crimes in modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed, but even more so from ignorance and indifference" "Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."