Human Rights Quotes - Page 5

• Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

  Tawakkol Karman

  Peace, War, Mean

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• America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Usa, America

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

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• Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Climate, Century

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• Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Needs, Matter

  "Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is a Terrible Defense of Minor Privacy Violations" by Natalie Shoemaker, bigthink.com.

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• I want a society free of human trafficking

  Anuradha Koirala

  Freedom, Society, Want

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• Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Strong, Power, Rights

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• The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings. At issue was the fundamental question of whether men's rights were God-given or whether these rights were to be dispensed by governments to their subjects. This document proclaimed that all men have certain inalienable rights. In other words, these rights came from God.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  God, Kings, Men

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• As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal of some to understand, or outright refusal to learn about other human beings is based on fear. Fear is what keeps people apart.

  Piri Thomas

  Fear, Struggle, Communication

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• The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Work, Mean

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, Penguin

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• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

  George W. Bush

  Rights, Achievement, Liberty

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1231, Government Printing Office

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• I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

  Horace Greeley

  Men, Rights, Feet

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• True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Peace, Ubuntu, Rights

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Rights, People, Trying

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• Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

  Muhammad Ali

  Dog, Home, Simple

  "Stephen Frears To Direct ‘Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight’ For HBO, Casting Underway" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2012.

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• A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

  Ramsey Clark

  Rights, Libertarian Party, Giving

  1977 In the NewYork Times, 2 Oct.

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• Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.

  Vandana Shiva

  Rights, Giving, Water

  Vandana Shiva (2002). “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit”, p.35, South End Press

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• In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Commitment, Rights

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• We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

  Mary Travers

  Mean, Rights, Air

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• I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights.

  Portia Simpson-Miller

  Christian, Believe, Rights

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• Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mean, Rights, Giving

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• We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Rights, Followers, Tradition

  "Campaigners at Girl Summit call for end to female genital mutilation" By Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I will always work for human rights for all people.

  Rosa Parks

  Rights, People, Humans

  Rosa Parks' Remarks at the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. October 16, 1995.

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• Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.

  Aung San

  Rights, Order, Deny

  Acceptance message for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, July 1991.

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