Human rights Quotes

"The greatest crimes in modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed, but even more so from ignorance and indifference" "Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin." "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race" "A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force to take away his life" "Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains" "I have always been driven by the idea of equality for everyone." "War is a defeat for humanity" "Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice" "Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free" "I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights." "If you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem" "I've always defined obscenity as any situation in which some people are forced to witness others exercising their liberties" "Any unilateral and extra-judicial act by law enforcement bodies contravenes the elementary norms of the law." "The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less" "Suffrage is the pivotal right"