Quotes about Human rights

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God

My civil rights will not be trampled, and I say this not for me but for my children, and all those who yearn to breathe free. Those who make your Apple products at Foxxcon, those who languish in prisons in Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela. Those homosexuals who are stoned to death in the streets of Egypt or Iran, while our so-called civil rights leaders hold coffee klatches with third graders in the White House.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.

All men are created equal.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam now wants to be "civil" about killing newborns. He ended his response to questions about approving third-trimester abortions by saying, "So again, as I said in my comments about this earlier, we can agree to disagree, but let's be civil about it." Dr.

Hattaway, an insider and chronicler of the UCM, gives a picture of what the church could face in our hostile Western world: "Apparently the [Chinese] government is using a new method to deal with people when they arrest them. Instead of beating them, they are drugging them with a mind-altering chemical that diminishes the person's mental capacity."23 The Shandong Revival in China was perhaps one

Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

Political Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every [human], has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other [human] the free exercise of the same rights.

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.