Human Rights Quotes - Page 24

• I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing. You look at all these different movements going on: the environment movement, the interfaith movement, the human rights movement, the youth movement, and the arts movement.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Art, Rights, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights.

  Andy Garcia

  Betrayal, Rights, Promise

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• Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

  Donald Trump

  Rights, Squad, Suffering

  "Trump and Obama offer divergent responses to death of Fidel Castro" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.

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• There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Rights, People, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

  Ai Weiwei

  Rights, Humans, Ifs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

  Thorolf Rafto

  Freedom, Bird, Caged

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• The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Humanity, Principles

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Men, Ubuntu

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• The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

  John Hume

  Respect, Peace, Rights

  John Hume's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1998.

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• The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

  Irene Khan

  Peace, War, Rights

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• A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

  Petra Kelly

  Peace, Mean, Rights

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• In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

  Pope John XXIII

  Truth, Rights, Justice

  'Pacem in Terris' (1963)

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• After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can't respect one of them and violate the others. When a society doesn't respect the rights of its citizens, it undermines peace and leads it back to war.

  Maria Julia Hernandez

  Respect, War, Mean

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• In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.

  Martin Almada

  Future, Mean, Rights

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• Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Responsibility, Men, Space

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• ...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.

  Kofi Annan

  Time, Rights, Humanity

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• There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

  Dorothy Height

  Rights, Law, Enforcement

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• The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Rights, Divine Right

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• War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension, of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  War, Rights, Erosion

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• The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Rights, Doctrine

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.395, Penguin

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• Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Country, Religious, Buddhist

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• It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

  Joichi Ito

  Rights, Law, Would Be

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• We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Taken, Hippie

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• Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

  Dick Gregory

  Rights, Justice, Diversity

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• The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.

  Malcolm X

  America, Rights, Justice

  "Racism: the Cancer that is Destroying America", Egyptian Gazette, August 25, 1964.

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