Read quote“Does she not understand that apartheid is the root of violence, that violence is being committed in the name of apartheid?”
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About Human Rights
Universal rights, freedoms, and protections owed to every person.
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Words on Human Rights
Read quote“But this civil rights revolution is not confined to the Negro, nor is it confined to civil rights for our white allies know that they cannot be free while we are not.”
Read quote“The overriding challenge for human rights today is implementation of the agreed standards and to make human rights a reality for everyone.”
Read quote“¿Con qué derecho y con qué justicia tenéis en tan cruel y horrible servidumbre a estos indios?”
Read quote“We should ask why these people have to suffer.”
Read quote“But today, I must break my silence, because now even my basic right to exist, my right to a home, is threatened.”
Read quote“There is no such thing as an inferior people.”
Read quote“What is each person able to do and to be?”
Read quote“Komu nevadí ztráta svobody, zříká se svého lidství…”
Read quote“We cannot live without houses and land.”
Read quote“Love is the beginning, middle and end of liberation.”
Read quote“There is really no difference between dropping a bomb and killing an innocent man.”
Read quote“The principle, however, upon which I found the necessity of abolition is not Policy but Justice.”
Read quote“He who stoops continuously ends up permanently hunched and dehumanized.”
Read quote“Justice, like peace, is indivisible and the world today cannot remain half free and half slave.”
Read quote“For all are by nature of very subtle, lively, clear and most capable understanding.”
Read quote“the dream of all human rights for all.”
Read quote“War destroys all human values and is the greatest danger to everything which human beings desire and cherish.”
Read quote“La creación es un derecho humano.”
Read quote“The Declaration loses none of its authority under close analysis.”