Basic human rights Quote by Nick Hornby

“Human rights that do not apply to everyone are not human rights at all.”

— Volker Beck

“Human rights are difficult to pin down because their definition, indeed their very existence, depends on emotions as much as on reason.”

— Lynn Hunt

“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.”

— Rebecca Ann Parker

“To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

— Nelson Mandela

“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”

— Sojourner Truth

“human rights" cannot serve as a stable, shared basis for morality in a society riven by fundamental disagreement about what "human" means, as is…

— Brad S. Gregory

“Human rights; they are in the hands of mankind and nowhere else.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Humans are born with human rights. Those human rights are inherent—”

— Thom Hartmann

“You won't further the cause of human rights by walking away with your morals intact. Change is about getting your hand dirty.”

— Brian Malloy

“It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“You can't simultaneously control people, while offering them guaranteed freedom as their birthright.”

— Laurel Dewey