Quotes on Human Rights Day

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

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

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

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

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.

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

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

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 ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.