741 Quotes About Human-rights

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.

Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt.

By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and should have entire control over its own fate, this seems to me unrealistic even for human beings, and far too one-sided to be used as a central tool of morality.

Una pena leer los Derechos Humanos y tener la impresión de que los escribieron dos amigos borrachos en un momento de exaltación de la amistad.

We huddle tightly together as cowards, protecting the ranks of our false collective identity from "less-human" intruders, when the only obvious and sane truth is that we are all the same human beings.

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.

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

Sexual rights are not only a basic element of human rights but should have an integral part in moves towards Arab reform ...

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.