Quotes and Sayings About Human Rights

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

#Brother #Men #Human Rights

I recognize no rights but human rights.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Rights #Human Rights #Humans

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

#Rights #Human Rights #Humans

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
-- Bayard Rustin

#Society #Dignity #Human Rights

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.
-- Carlo Dossi

#Way #Human Rights #Grants

The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Home #World #Human Rights

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

#Destiny #Men #Human Rights

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.
-- Gerrit Smith

#Rights #Human Rights #Charter

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.
-- Ghassan Kanafani

#Expression #Arrogant #Human Rights

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.
-- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#Democracy #Culture #Human Rights

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.
-- Irene Khan

#Rights #Justice #Human Rights

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.
-- Kofi Annan

#Blessing #Human Rights #Aspiration

Victims should come first.
-- Maria Julia Hernandez

#Firsts #Human Rights #Victim

Without peace, there is little hope for human rights
-- Martin Ennals

#Rights #Littles #Human Rights

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

#Taken #Parks #Human Rights

the Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.
-- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#Past #Reputation #Human Rights

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

#Rights #Political #Human Rights

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.
-- Pranab Mukherjee

#Human Rights #Hunger #Humiliation

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#House #Shelter #Human Rights

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

#Rights #People #Human Rights

Tolerance and human rights require each other.
-- Simon Wiesenthal

#Rights #Tolerance #Human Rights

Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible.
-- Theo van Boven

#Rights #Development #Human Rights

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

#Respect #Human Rights #Humans

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.
-- Will Rogers

#Want #Human Rights #Drink