Universal Rights Quotes

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

I recognize no rights but human rights—I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

The rights given in the Constitution are given to all people—the most popular and the least popular.

Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.

The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of any nation, but are presumed to be claims or entitlements of every human being. They differ, therefore, from constitutionally created rights guaranteed for specific people.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, but none in themselves nobler than others. All are, in like degree, designed for freedom.

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.

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

The rights of the lowliest criminal are not his alone. They belong to us all.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

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

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.

Every human being, including those who belong to the enemy, have rights.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.