Humanity Human Rights Quotes

#1. Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

Widad Akreyi

#2. To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

Nelson Mandela

#3. The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.

J.S.B. Morse

#4. We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.

Bryant McGill

#5. I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Victor Hugo

#6. I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Victor Hugo

#7. The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

Rod Serling

#8. Whoever coined the phrase '"I can work well under pressure" should be put on trial for crimes against Humanity.

Adriano Bulla

#9. Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.

Abraham Lincoln

#10. We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

Widad Akreyi

#11. To every person who has never experienced genuine love and kindness, may you still have the strength to find the love and light that exists within your soul to give, thrive, and shine.

Leta B.

#12. If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses.

Leta B.

#13. I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND TELL EVERYONE
ABOUT ...
THE REAL WAR ON WOMEN
ON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN

Widad Akreyi

#14. Freedom is alone the unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independent of the will and co-action of every other ...

Immanuel Kant

#15. If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

John Brunner

#16. Every person has the choice to contribute to or drain from this world.

Leta B.

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

Mother Teresa

#18. No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.

Takayuki Yamaguchi

#19. Let's stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring peace and unity to our communities.

Widad Akreyi

#20. The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

Julian Bond

#21. The simple truth is that every human being should be born with basic human rights without suffering from discrimination.

Leta B.

#22. Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.

Judith Butler

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

Nelson Mandela

#24. Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own.

Christina Engela

#25. WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!

Widad Akreyi

#26. Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation.

Auliq Ice

#27. I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#28. The government announced that never again will this country allow such a 'lapse in humanity to poison us and strip people of their basic human rights.' Everybody looks back and wonders how we allowed it to happen in the first place. It all seems so simple now.

Cecelia Ahern

#29. Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

Liu Xiaobo

#30. Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values.

Amit Ray

#31. Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity.

Armando Valladares

#32. ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING:
HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE

Widad Akreyi

#33. Prejudice is poison in the veins of the world.

Leta B.

#34. The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

Ashley Montagu

#35. May you have the courage to choose love over hate.

Leta B.

#36. It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#37. Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

Ramez Naam

#38. Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect. Human rights aren't lying around waiting to be discovered. They're made, not found.

David Livingstone Smith

#39. Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of equality and common humanity was the sustenance needed to make it through the rest of the week in a society that deemed them less than human.

Janelle Gray

#40. If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Desmond Tutu

#41. UPON FACES ANGEL TEARS ... YOUR VOICES IN OUR EARS

Widad Akreyi

#42. Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It is in the West that human rights are most respected.

Ibn Warraq

#43. Until we align our minds with our souls,
we will continue to grieve for our highest selves as individuals, a society, and as a world family.

Leta B.

#44. In all you do, speak up for the human rights of others. Become the voice for those who face oppression and can't speak for themselves. Each time you do ... you help humanity take steps to a brighter, peaceful world.

Timothy Pina

#45. How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production?

Arundhati Roy

#46. Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?

Mamoru Oshii

#47. THE SADNESS IN OUR HEARTS SEEMS ENDLESS

Widad Akreyi

#48. The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and humanity have been destroyed. They have gone up in smoke.

Osama Bin Laden

#49. 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

#50. There wasn't a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying our
country?

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#51. Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

Dick Gregory

#52. American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity on their leaders with respect to accountability for crimes against humanity.

Richard A. Falk

#53. We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.

Terry Hayes

#54. It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!

Widad Akreyi

#55. Children will often rise or fall according
to the expectations of loved ones in their lives.

Leta B.

#56. If you are low on self confidence and your life sucks, become a vegetarian. You will nag on other human beings and hate them so much for abusing animals that you would have no free time to remember how miserable your own life is!

Hamidreza Bagheri