Quotes about Human rights

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.

Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made....

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

My father's leadership was about more than civil rights. He was deeply concerned with human rights and world peace, and he said so on numerous occasions. He was a civil rights leader, true. But he was increasingly focused on human rights and a global concern and peace as an imperative.

The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.

But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.