Human rights Quotes

"We ask only for justice and equal rights—the right to vote the right to labor the right to serve as jurors and then the judgment of our peers" "Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it" "The principle itself of liberty and the Social Contract is a rights-logic applicable to all human beings without discrimination." "The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, so many children without education, so many poor persons." "We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance." "We cannot be content to sit back and watch as some are subjugated by domination and violence because we are all part of one human family" "We are all and should be treated as equals" "A man is morally free when, in an extant universe, he is capable of doing whatever he thinks is right, of thinking whatever he believes is true, and of feeling whatever he feels." "There are no rights. There are only privileges." "To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity." "While poverty persists, there is no true freedom." "Poverty in democracy is as much to be preferred to so-called prosperity under despots, as freedom to slavery." "Freedom is a noble thing " "There is no moral obligation to accept oppression, humiliation, and exclusion as our lot in life" "Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."