Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes About Human Rights

Quotes about: Human Rights

• There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Rights, Compromise, Humans

• The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Party, Sunshine, Rights

  1948 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 14 July 1948, Philadelphia, PA

• And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Jobs, Work, Home

• My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Party, Sunshine, Rights

  Address at Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, www.americanrhetoric.com. July 14, 1948.

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