Basic Right Quotes

Education should be a fundamental human right.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It is time to make universal health insurance a national priority, so that the basic right to health care can finally become a reality for every American.

Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.

The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.

What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.

The access to clean air and clean water is a basic right.

It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

No one should be denied the opportunity to choose his or her spouse. It is a basic human right and deeply personal decision.

Clean air shouldn't be a privilege dictated by where you can afford to live but a right to which we are all entitled.