Top 100 Human Right Quotes
#1. When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#2. Health is a human necessity; health is a human right
James Lenhart
#3. You don't need to be a completely complete human right now ... That's what makes you human.
Tavi Gevinson
#4. Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge ... the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel ... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.
Louis Farrakhan
#5. There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.
Albert Einstein
#6. There's no need for drama and hate, y'all. Let's love each other! We're all human, right?
Taylor York
#7. We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
Paddy Ashdown
#8. No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.
Melanie Phillips
#9. Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.
Faye Wattleton
#10. Years ago, a group of good, wise, brave, God-fearing men stood up to claim and defend the human right for independence. Those men are now dead. Their work is not. If good, wise, brave, God-fearing men fail to stand up in their stead, that independence will cease to exist.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#11. The only human right. - He who deviates from the traditional falls victim to
the extraordinary; he who remains in the traditional becomes its slave. In
either event he perishes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit.
Dr. Willie Parker
#13. In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.
Nelson Mandela
#14. Access to the public library should be a basic human right.
Kaitlyn Dunnett
#15. We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
#16. Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.
Simon Sinek
#17. Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.
Hugo Chavez
#19. 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
#20. It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.
Gloria Steinem
#21. No one is guaranteed happiness. It's not a human right. It's a house you have to build yourself. Your family and friends can help, but they're all busy building their own houses too. You're just bitter because you built a shit house.
Exurb1a
#22. It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.
Kofi Annan
#23. Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.
Pope Francis
#24. The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.
Tim Berners-Lee
#25. So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
Paul Farmer
#26. I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos
#28. Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.
Nelson Mandela
#29. I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad
Andy Partridge
#30. I love you Abang, so what? That is a human right. The fact that you do not love me, it is also human right. Abang ngga salah, tapi aku juga ngga salah, kan?
Jainar Berliana
#31. In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.
Keith O'Brien
#32. We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
Aretha Franklin
#33. The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
Marya Mannes
#34. Knowledge is a basic human right. Equal access to all possible human experiences is a basic human right.
Dave Eggers
#35. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.
Kofi Annan
#36. Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.
Julio Frenk
#37. There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience.
Vint Cerf
#38. I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.
Anne Roiphe
#39. Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Kofi Annan
#40. 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
#41. Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
Ban Ki-moon
#42. The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt
#43. Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design and it is a clear and concrete proof of the fundamental human right to live.
Kenji Ekuan
#44. A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.
Tom Stoppard
#45. To be remembered is, I think, a badic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in a desert when it is gone.
Joseph Fink
#46. That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.
Tom Stoppard
#47. Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#48. I'd like to believe that following one's bliss is a human right.
Julie Carmen
#49. It's time to recognise the Internet as a basic human right, that means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring Internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of Web users regardless of where they live.
Tim Berners-Lee
#50. We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
#51. And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?
John Boyle O'Reilly
#52. The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.
Theodore Roosevelt
#53. The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
Jimmy Carter
#54. I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.
A.C. Grayling
#56. Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.
Theodor Adorno
#57. Peaceful death is really an essential human right, more essential perhaps even than the right to vote or the right to justice; it is a right on which, all religious traditions tell us, a great deal depends for the well-being and spiritual future of the dying person. There
Sogyal Rinpoche
#58. I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.
Martin O'Malley
#59. We have raised an issue that is already in the Bolivian constitution, that water is a universal human right. And we asked the United Nations to recognize water as a human right.
Evo Morales
#61. The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.
Hamadoun Toure
#62. All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
Jack Kevorkian
#63. Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.
Ann Cotton
#64. Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
Miroslav Volf
#65. I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.
Rebecca Ann Parker
#66. To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right,
Andrej Pejic
#67. The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right
it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society.
Pope Benedict XVI
#68. But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
Iris Murdoch
#69. If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?
Paul Farmer
#70. Life sucks, there's no way around that. But you never know when the good might come. Maybe it won't, but you shouldn't count it out. And besides, that's what makes us human, right? Even if it seems impossible, even when there is no point, we fight to the death with smiles on our faces.
Kyle West
#71. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P. J. O'Rourke
#72. The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.
John Sweeney
#73. Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.
Muhammad Yunus
#74. Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.
Jordan Flaherty
#75. I am inclined to believe that if there can be a meaningful human right to any material thing, surely it starts with access to minimum clean freshwater.
Steven Solomon
#76. What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.
Elizabeth Holmes
#77. The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend him or herself.
Pope Francis
#78. Everybody has secrets, everybody lies, and everybody cheats their way through life for self-fulfillment. We wouldn't do it if we felt sorry; we do it because it's our human right to seek happiness.
E.K. Blair
#79. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. It is about choice, and having the power to control how you present yourself to the world.
Bruce Schneier
#80. The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war.
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#81. Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!
Wilma Scott Heide
#82. Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.
Jim Wallis
#83. Enlightenment should be a human right.
B.W. Powe
#84. The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.
Lewis Gordon
#85. Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.
Stockwell Day
#86. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.
Shakira
#87. To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in the desert when it is gone.
Joseph Fink
#88. Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.
Thomas Szasz
#89. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right." Harris
Abraham Verghese
#90. 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
#91. The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.
Elizabeth Holmes
#92. We in Europe ... do not consider the freedom to buy weapons a human right.
Gisela Kallenbach
#94. Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.
Kofi Annan
#95. I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life ...
John Howard
#96. 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
#97. What we are fighting isn't godlessness
this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines ... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
Abraham Verghese
#98. As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.
Dalai Lama
#99. Such a little thing really, a kiss ... most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss on meeting, they kiss on parting, that simple touching of flesh is taken entirely for granted as a basic human right.
Sarah Kay
#100. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]
Nelson Mandela
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