Quotes about Human rights

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

No human being is illegal.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

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.

The only basis for genuine human rights and dignity is a fully biblical worldview.

Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.

But my father also supported human rights, freedom and self-determination for all people, including Latino agricultural workers, Native Americans, and the millions of impoverished white men and women who were treated as second-class citizens.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ...You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Jesus doesn't just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.

As we cannot afford to squander our natural resources of minerals, food, and beauty, so we cannot afford to discard any human resources of brains, skills, and initiative, even though it is women who possess them...a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual.