Human Rights Quotes

"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights."

Gloria Steinem

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home."

"Education is a human right with immense power to transform."

Kofi Annan

"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

“When the prison gates slam behind an inmate, he does not lose his human quality; his mind does not become closed to ideas; his yearning for self-respect does not end.”

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.”

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home, so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.”

“Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”

“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.”

"Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere."

"Human rights are what reason requires and conscience demands."

Kofi Annan

“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.”

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

“Women's rights are human rights.”

Hillary Clinton

“Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind.”

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

“Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself.”

Chief Joseph

“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.”