Rodrigo Duterte Quotes

I stand up for all rights.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us as Canadians.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

Human Rights

Is the Jew a man? He is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, my fellow; and he shall not, if I can prevent it, be a slave! I demand for him equal rights and privileges, and a place within the pale of the Constitution!" Let all the people say, Even so, AMEN!

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory. The right to play on any playing field? You have earned it. The right to study in any school? You have earned it. The right to hold a job? You have earned it. The right to anyone's neighbor? You have earned it.

For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

If you want peace, work for justice.

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.

The fundamental democratic principles on which American Society is organized, are those principles of justice and mercy by which the guilty, the ignorant, the needy, and the infirm, are saved and blessed.