Ravi Zacharias Quotes

The right to life is the first among human rights.

The most general rights, which belong to all mankind, may be said to be the right to life, to liberty and to property.

There is no right more fundamental than the right to be born and reared with all the dignity the human person deserves.

One of the eternal rights is the individual’s right to live. The strongest of all instincts—self preservation—is an assertion of that right.

The lesson of history that all human rights are indivisible and that the failure to adhere to this principle jeopardizes the rights of all.

We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant things to be much easier than we have made them. A man has a natural right to food, clothing, and shelter. A certain amount of goods is necessary to lead a good life.

Every human being has the right to live. It is our duty to acknowledge that right by providing for it. In a natural state of society it would take care of itself. As matters are now it must be deliberately provided for.

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.

I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

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

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Establish democracy ... based on human rights as superior to property rights.

Every man has a right to bread.

No doubt that a great deal of nonsense has been written about the “unalienable rights of individuals.”

Today, many human rights take the forms of claims.