Basic Rights Quotes

Peace, Bread & Land

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

Unfortunately, I have witnessed millions of children suffering from the deprivation of basic rights such as the rights to education, the rights to health and the rights to play.

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

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

Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted.

I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to send their kids to school; they want to live in peace; they want to have their basic rights of life just like everyone else. I think we all owe an obligation to support people who want to do that.

Being in a field like healthcare, for me, as someone who is basically on a mission to make a global impact in terms of affordable access to healthcare, I am very, very concerned about the fact that there are a large number of people in this world who need to have some access to basic rights, whether it is in education or healthcare.

Freedom is not negotiable.

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.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

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

I would simply not compromise on the fundamental rights of people.

Our basic rights declaring document: The Declaration of Independence.

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Korra and Aang ultimately stand for freedom, equality, and basic human rights, and I think Mike and I are fine with pushing that agenda.

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.

The Constitution doesn’t say that whites alone shall have our basic rights.., but that we shall all have them

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to voting, and violence by white racists continued. Such open racism is mostly gone in America, but covert racism is alive and well.