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• The stories from Iran’s present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.

  Azar Nafisi

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Freedom, Human Rights

• If you don’t want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Rights
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  They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Human Rights, Nonviolence, Injustice

• No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Equality, Human Rights, Government, Women, Freedom, Men

• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century — solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Human Rights, Solidarity, Duty, Community, Loneliness

• Genuine politics — even politics worthy of the name — the only politics I am willing to devote myself to — is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

  Vaclav Havel

  Topics in Politics, Service

  Tags in Human Rights, Compassion, Ethics, Responsibility, Duty, Community

• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

  Abigail Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Rights, Injustice, Feminism, Rebellion, Women, Law

• The true civilization is where every man gives to every other man every right he claims for himself.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Rights, Civilization

• Freedom from fear” could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Human Rights, Freedom, Philosophy

• When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

  Helder Pessoa Camara

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Human Rights

• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Rights, Spirit

• Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

  Robert F. Kennedy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diversity, Human Rights, Hatred, Tolerance, Freedom

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Humanity, Mistake

  Tags in Human Rights, Injustice, Freedom

• Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Rights, Potential, World, Security, Freedom

• And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there’s no game in progress, that’s all — in spite of the childhood bible, the comic strip. It believes that only when you’re permitted to murder, kill, rob and burn can a game be in progress. That is the message carried to us by the Sunday papers. And that is the message which every child erroneously learns.

  L Ron Hubbard

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Human Rights, Violence

• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  Wangari Maathai

  Topics in Democracy, Environment

  Tags in Connections, Human Rights, Environmental, Peace, Seem, Relationship

• Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Human Rights, Injustice, Rebellion, Reason

• You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Human Rights, Action, Feeling

• Last guys don’t finish nice.

  Saul Alinsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Rights, Injustice, Rebellion, Niceness, Enemies

• The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

  Topics in Democracy, Justice

  Tags in Human Rights, Action