Quotes about Human rights

You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; right derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

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

Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are both to be reckoned among their rights.

It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.

No human being is illegal.

Apartheid is, in my view, as abhorrent as anti-Semitism. To me, Andrei Sakharov's isolation is as much a disgrace as Joseph Begun's imprisonment and Ida Nudel's exile. As is the denial of Solidarity and its leader Lech Walesa's right to dissent. And Nelson Mandela's interminable imprisonment.

Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free.

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the centre of the universe.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights