Human Rights Quotes

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  America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

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• We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Rights, Followers, Tradition

  "Campaigners at Girl Summit call for end to female genital mutilation" By Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. July 22, 2014.

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• Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Respect, Rights, Giving

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll", Vol VII, 2009.

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• You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Peace, Emotions Feelings, Anxiety

  "To My Daughters, With Love (My Neighbor's Son)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

  George W. Bush

  Rights, Achievement, Liberty

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1231, Government Printing Office

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• I will always work for human rights for all people.

  Rosa Parks

  Rights, People, Humans

  Rosa Parks' Remarks at the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. October 16, 1995.

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• Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Appreciation, War

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• The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Government, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.8, Modern Library

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• The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

  Mary Robinson

  Fighting, Rights, Humans

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

  Kay Granger

  Rights, Liberty, Shadow

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• The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Men, Rights

  1963 On sending national guardsmen to ensure peaceful integration at the University of Alabama. Address to the nation, 11 Jun.

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• Without peace, there is little hope for human rights

  Martin Ennals

  Rights, Littles, Humans

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• I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

  Horace Greeley

  Men, Rights, Feet

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• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

  Mother Teresa

  Rights, Government, Abortion

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• Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Rights, Supremacy

  State of the Union Address - The Four Freedoms Speech, January 6, 1941.

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• I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

  Coretta Scott King

  Believe, Responsibility, Rights

  "Shadow in the Land : Homosexuality in America" by William Dannemeyer, (p. 148), 1989.

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• 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Fear, Philosophy, Rights

  In a statement on the 180th anniversary of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, written by Thomas Jefferson, as quoted in Quote, May 20, 1956.

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• Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Struggle, Rights

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• The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Rights, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.229, Penguin

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• The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Destiny, Rights, Hands

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• Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rights

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978". Book by Jimmy Carter, 1979.

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• Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.

  Michael Douglas

  Rights, Serenity, Foundation

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• Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Respect, Equality, Rights

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• Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Climate, Century

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