Awakening Quote by Birch Bayh

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

— Roméo Dallaire

The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries…

— Kofi Annan

I grew up in a refugee camp. Thirty years. This so-called human-rights world didn't ask me what was happening for me to be there…

— Paul Kagame

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

— Charles Sumner

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be…

— Elizabeth Evatt

We must think of millions of people who have had to cross national borders and seek protection as refugees; of millions of people suffering…

— T Joseph Benziger

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

— Lara Logan

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always…

— Paulo Coelho

If human rights are an attribute of being human, then we must consider the fact that tens of millions of displaced people around the…

— Masha Gessen

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your…

— Nelson Mandela