Famous human-rights quotations

   I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  Nice Word by Bishop Desmond Tutu, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

   No man is above the law and no man below it.  Meaningful Quotation by Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.  Good Quote by Justice William J. Brennan, 1982

   It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.  Wise Phrase by Carl T. Rowan

   Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.  Wise Phrase by Abraham Lincoln

   I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.  Famous Saying by Barry Goldwater

   By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.  Nice Word by Edwin Markham

   I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.  Meaningful Quotation by Robert Frost

   You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.  Good Quote by Lyn Beth Neylon

   I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.  Wise Phrase by Will Rogers

   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 of your territory.  Wise Phrase by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.  Famous Saying by Gandhi

   Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.  Nice Word by Roger Baldwin

   If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.  Meaningful Quotation by Howard Mumford Jones

   I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.  Good Quote by Horace Greeley

   Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.  Wise Phrase by Walt Whitman

   Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.  Wise Phrase by Robert Ingersoll



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