Nelson Mandela Quotes About Human Rights

Quotes about: Human Rights

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  Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .

  Nelson Mandela

  Justice, Overcoming, Fundamentals

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

• Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.

  Nelson Mandela

  Kings, Selfish, War

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 28, 2013

• AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Issues, Disease

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

• Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty, Justice

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2016

• This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Ignorance, Rights

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

• To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

• Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights. At the same time, democracy also requires that the rights of political and other minorities be safeguarded.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Country, Rights

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

• There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Liberty, Cuba

• To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Country, Fate

• As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Long, Substance

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

• We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Rights, Racism

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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