Human Rights Day Quotes

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

Human rights education is much more than a lesson in schools or a theme for a day; it is a process to equip people with the tools they need to live lives of security and dignity. On this International Human Rights Day, let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

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.

...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters.

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

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

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 not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

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