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745 Human Rights quotes by 456 unique authors

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be… — Rigoberta Menchu
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a… — John Boyle O'Reilly
We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty. — Jose Ramos-Horta
Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts. — Mary Robinson
I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human… — Mary Robinson
Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation. — Mary Robinson
The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand… — Samuel Ruiz
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does… — Mother Teresa
Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible. — Unknown Author
Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive — Simon Wiesenthal
When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it. — Simon Wiesenthal
Tolerance and human rights require each other. — Simon Wiesenthal
We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory of the victims… — Lidia Yusupova
Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your… — Lidia Yusupova
I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live. — Leyla Zana
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial… — Kofi Annan
The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does… — Kofi Annan
What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think… — Tony Blair
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are… — Unknown Author
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern… — Vaclav Havel
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won. — Joichi Ito
We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back… — Unknown Author
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. — Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied… — Nelson Mandela

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