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Quotes about Human rights

But my father also supported human rights, freedom and self-determination for all people, including Latino agricultural workers, Native Americans, and the millions of impoverished white men and women who were treated as second-class citizens.
— Martin Luther King III
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
— Ayn Rand
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
— Jimmy Carter
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
— Tertullian