Human Rights Quotes
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“The essence of bigotry is denying others the same rights you claim for yourself. Green bigots are a classic example.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.
Quote by -Tom Brokaw
The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
Quote by -Vivienne Westwood
“the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people. Every act of cruelty towards any creature is “contrary to human dignity”.”
Quote by -Pope Francis
“I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.”
Quote by -Malcolm X
“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Quote by -James Madison
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
Quote by -James Madison
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”
Quote by -James Madison
“[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
Quote by -James Madison
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
Quote by -James Madison
“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.”
Quote by -James Madison
“You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties or his possessions. ”
Quote by -James Madison
“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”
Quote by -James Madison
“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home”
Quote by -James Madison
“The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.”
Quote by -James Madison
“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
Quote by -James Madison
“Let me recommend the best medicine in the world a long journey at a mild season through a pleasant country in easy stages.”
Quote by -James Madison
"My point was very simple, and it was that it is absolutely absurd for the United States of America to continue to urge us further down the line towards a federal superstate when the U.S. has not even signed up to the U.N. Convention on Human Rights."
Quote by -Boris Johnson
"Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
"But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right."
Quote by -Iris Murdoch
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
Quote by -Martin Luther King