Quotes about Human rights

It seems indeed that the Church today is one of the few institutions in the world willing to defend human rights regardless of who the oppressor is.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.

Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made....

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

My father's leadership was about more than civil rights. He was deeply concerned with human rights and world peace, and he said so on numerous occasions. He was a civil rights leader, true. But he was increasingly focused on human rights and a global concern and peace as an imperative.