Quotes about Human rights

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will...

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved until the human rights of the other are recognized and guaranteed.

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.