Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Human Rights Quotes
EqualityFreedomHuman Rights We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
EqualityHuman RightsJusticeRespectTolerance I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women.
EqualityHuman RightsIntrinsic Needs No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Human RightsMoralityPeaceReligionTolerance No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
ConscienceHuman RightsReligious FreedomResistance I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.
Human RightsLegal SegregationMoral UnityOppressionResistance In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
AltruismHuman RightsMoralityPurposeSocial Justice Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
EqualityHistoryHuman RightsPersecutionWomen Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.
FeminismGender EqualityHuman RightsSocial ProgressSociety Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Human RightsJusticeMemory and RemembranceRecognition of Historical Atrocities It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.
CollaborationGovernanceHappinessHuman RightsKnowledge The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government.
EqualityGender DiscriminationHistoryHuman RightsJustice The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
EqualityHuman RightsJusticePrejudiceTolerance Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
CriticismHuman RightsHumorIronyPolitics I can make a joke pointing out that David Cameron told off Sri Lanka for human rights abuses committed with weapons Britain sold it - like Ronald McDonald calling you a fat bastard.
Global FreedomHuman RightsIntegrityJusticeMorality Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Human RightsMoralityPeace AdvocacyWar and Peace The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.