Hillary Clinton Quotes

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

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

One man’s right is every man’s right.

Nothing... is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Human Rights

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.

Everyone must have their rights, and in fact everyone gets their rights.

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

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

There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.

So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.

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

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.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.