1. Without peace, there is little hope for human rights
2. Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter
3. The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy
4. Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.
5. It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that a foreign policy that is morally right protects human rights everywhere.
6. I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot
7. Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights
8. There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.
9. After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can’t respect one of them and violate the others. When a society doesn’t respect the rights of its citizens, it undermines peace and leads it back to war.
10. The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.
11. The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights
12. And it is to these rights -- the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education -- it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.
13. there can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.
14. Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
15. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
16. We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
17. If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed
18. The Earth is the mother of all people and all people should have equal rights upon it.
19. In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves.
20. No cause can justify the abuse of human rights
21. The world does not need a war against ‘terrorism’, it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
22. There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.
23. I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.
24. Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.
25. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
26. we are opposing the exploitation of man by man, similarly we must oppose the exploitation of peoples by other peoples ... but today this is no longer enough ... we have to assist the peoples fighting for their independence to develop their economies, to increase their standard of living
27. Fear is not the natural state of civilized man
28. Please use your freedom to promote ours.
29. The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
30. Sexual abuse and rape in our prisons are the epitome of the dehumanizing nature of our entire correctional system. Prison rape is a human rights issue; it's a public health issue; and it's a public safety issue.
31. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally
32. To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men
33. All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
34. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life
35. Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”
36. Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
37. All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
38. An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone
39. You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.
40. The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
41. Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly
42. We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty
43. A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess
44. Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts
45. Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
46. We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors ...but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
47. The only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for enough good people to do nothing
48. True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice
49. Worrying does not empty tomorrow of it's troubles, it empties today of it's stength
50. Hope is power
51. We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams, we are the movers and the shakers
52. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful commited citizens can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever does
53. If you judge people, you have no time to love them
54. I feel morally and intellectually obliged to simply conceded that the death penalty experiment has failed.... From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
55. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them
56. No man is above the law and no man below it.
57. It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home
58. Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor
59. I want my child to walk in a world guided by love. This means that everybody will have a job, or the resources to take care of basic needs. A world where families are not oppressed and are connected to their neighbors and their communities, where the best in humanity is honored. That's when we will truly be at peace.
60. 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
61. It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.
62. Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible
63. You cannot have peace without human rights, democracy, gender equality, and clean water. Look to the root causes of war and you will find, in their reverse, the root foundations of peace.
64. Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same
65. I swore never to be silent whenever 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.
66. Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive
67. When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it
68. Tolerance and human rights require each other
69. To every man his chance, to every man regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity. To every man the right to live and to work and to be himself. And to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him
70. we should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory of the victims of this war, there is still our duty to try and prevent further bloodshed. We have to prosecute all the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity
71. civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help
72. I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I’ll keep doing so for as long as I live
73. Please use your freedom to promote ours
74. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty
75. The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting
76. You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law
77. Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
78. I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
79. If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
80. Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.
81. I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
82. Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
83. I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
84. Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
85. The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
86. Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend is blowin' in the wind.
87. 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.
88. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
89. Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.
90. None can love freedom heartily, but good men - the rest love not freedom, but licence.
91. One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
92. I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
93. I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
94. Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.
95. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
96. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
97. For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
98. 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.
99. There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
100. 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.
