Human Rights Quotes
+3The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.
- Cesar Chavez
+1Last guys don’t finish nice.
- Saul Alinsky
+1Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
+1I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
- Charles Houston
+1Without peace, there is little hope for human rights.
- Martin Ennals
+1Women’s empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.
- Mahnaz Afkhami
+1A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.
- Ramsey Clark
+1Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
- Albert Camus
+1..In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.
- Paul Farmer
+1The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
- Shirin Ebadi
+1The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
- Stephen Biko
+1Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.
- Albert Einstein
+1I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.
- Senator Miriam
+1If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
- Joichi Ito
+1Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.
- Roger Nash Baldwin
+1The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.
- Hannah Arendt
+1In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.
- Mahnaz Afkhami
+1Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.
- Dalai Lama
+1So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
- Roger Nash Baldwin
+1Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.
- Dith Pran
+1If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?
- Paul Farmer
+1America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.
- Jimmy Carter
+1When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
- Dom Helder Camara
+1You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
- Pearl S. Buck
+1Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
- Taslima Nasrin
+1The evolution of the human rights movement clearly illustrates humanity’s ongoing struggle toward creating a better world.
- Robert Alan
+1Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
- 14th Dalai Lama
+1Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
- Paulo Freire
+1You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mohandas Gandhi
+1The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King
+1When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
- Audre Lorde
+1Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
- Robert F. Kennedy
+1Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
- Imelda Marcos
+1Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
- Jimmy Carter
+1Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacher
0Unless your family greeted the Mayflower, you are probably a descendant of immigrants.
– John Kelly
