Human Rights Quotes

"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery" "Liberty when it begins to take root is a plant of rapid growth" "The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free" "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent, we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter" "Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant." "No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them." "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere." "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America." "When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand." "I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over." "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights That is the way of a whole human being" "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one" "There are some fundamental values that Europe stands for." "Human dignity shall be inviolable."