Human Rights

“leaving them abandoned like beasts”

“Segregation now...segregation tomorrow...segregation forever.”

“Until we put human rights at the centre, we will never have a handle on crime.”

“But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”

“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”

“The civilization of a country is tested by the manner in which it cares for its women, its boys and girls.”

“The time has come to proclaim that, for the establishment of peace and human dignity, each of us must work and fight to the last.”

“Everyone should be granted their fundamental rights.”

“All the nations of the world are made up of human beings, and of each and every human being there is one definition and one only: that they are rational.”

“Treat all with respect”

“Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights.”

“No cause is more worthy than the cause of human rights. Human rights are more than legal concepts; they are the essence of man. They are what make man human.”

“I believe that Jordan has, to its credit, always associated itself with the Palestinian hopes and aspirations and with the Arab cause.”

“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class,—it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”

“Every human has the right to choose how they want to live, what they want to wear, how they prefer to be addressed.”

“In England, racehorses received better treatment than we did.”

“Was verstehen wir unter dem Rechte der Frau? – Nichts anderes, als das Recht des Menschen überhaupt.”

“La convivencia en paz en una sociedad radica en que los derechos de las personas sean no sólo reconocidos, sino el fundamento de esa convivencia en paz.”