Human Rights Quotes

"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race" "A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force to take away his life" "Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains" "I have always been driven by the idea of equality for everyone." "War is a defeat for humanity" "Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice" "Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free" "I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights." "If you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem" "I've always defined obscenity as any situation in which some people are forced to witness others exercising their liberties" "Any unilateral and extra-judicial act by law enforcement bodies contravenes the elementary norms of the law." "The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less" "Suffrage is the pivotal right" "We ask only for justice and equal rights—the right to vote the right to labor the right to serve as jurors and then the judgment of our peers" "Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it" "The principle itself of liberty and the Social Contract is a rights-logic applicable to all human beings without discrimination." "The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, so many children without education, so many poor persons." "We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance." "We cannot be content to sit back and watch as some are subjugated by domination and violence because we are all part of one human family" "We are all and should be treated as equals"