Quotes about Human rights

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.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

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.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.