As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.
We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other’s dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live.
Two rights don’t equal a left.
A human being has no natural rights of any nature.
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
Men should not petition for rights, but take them.
The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.
We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.
You can’t be what you can’t see.