Quotes about Human rights

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.

The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.

But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Who would have known that much of the wealth in their nation's booming economy was created on the other side of the world by the most brutal mistreatment of other human beings, many of them women and children?

Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.

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

Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não merecem para si mesmos.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.