Romeo Dallaire Quotes

Equality lies only in human moral dignity.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

Slaves no doubt, but still men.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

I believe every man is born equal.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one human race is a source of scandal and militates against social justice, equity, human dignity, as well as social and international peace.

He won laurels on the score of his intellectual ability and forensic powers; but if our recollection is not at fault, his ground on the score of humanity towards the oppressed race [Blacks] was too low.

Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of the body and mind, as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.

Equality and emancipation are required by the laws of humanity. These laws are not dependant on Judaism of Christianity because those laws and our claim are prior to both.

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.