We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Read Summary
Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not. Read Summary
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. Read Summary
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. Read Summary
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. Read Summary
No conditions justify torture. Read Summary
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. Read Summary
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. Read Summary
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. Read Summary
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right? Read Summary
When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights. Read Summary
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. Read Summary
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. Read Summary
I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth. Read Summary
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. Read Summary
You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process. Read Summary
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. Read Summary
It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us. Read Summary