Taufaahau Tupou IV Quotes

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

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

As civilization advances there is a continual change in the standard of human rights.

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.

Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

Human rights are being exalted over victory.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.

The chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.

Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Liberty in America means the power to flog slaves, and to work them for nothing.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign...

When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.

Slavery is right, just, and lawful and consequently practiced every day.

Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

People have a right to certain non-negotiable demands of human dignity.

Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes committed in its name.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.