Human Rights Quotations

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it.In practice, though, World Summit on the Information Society only dealt with a small number of issues: ICTs and human rights (to some extent), ICTs and development (to some extent), infrastructure finance and Internet governance. Very large aspects of what might have been included in the "information society" were not really discussed.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

Does John Kerry have to give them [Iran] every little thing? You'll pass some sanctions for human rights and missiles, and I'll grudgingly sign on.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.

I will always work for human rights for all people.

I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.