Human Right Quotes
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We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
Aretha Franklin
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The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.
Hannah Arendt
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“Progressivism” is the belief that anything a Progressive wants is a fundamental Human Right which others are obligated to tolerate and pay for without complaint, because if you do complain it might create an issue and hurt someone's feelings.
Bill Whittle
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All human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.
Agnivesh
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Personally, I think people need to get over this 'being offended' thing. Being offended does not give you the right to silence people. I get offended by things all the time - it's just part of life. The right not to be offended is not a human right, especially in a democracy.
Ben Miller
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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
Jimmy Carter
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
Tertullian
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Tolerance and human rights require each other.
Simon Wiesenthal
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I strongly believe that education is a human right and that it's extremely valuable, no matter where you live in the world.
Nina Agdal
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In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.
Nicholas Donabet Kristof
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.
Tertullian
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To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.
Eva Green