Prestonia Mann Martin Quotes

Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George W. Bush.... But liberal and conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a liberal, so be it.

Before being an athlete, I'm a person, a human being, like the ones Open Arms are saving every day.

All men and women need a roof over their heads and need to be fed and have proper health care. I don't know that I believed that, or even understood that, in the early days.

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

And every human being is precious.

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.

Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.

A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.

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.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population?

Every human being, including those who belong to the enemy, have rights.

Bread for the Needy, clothing for the naked, and houses for the homeless.

My life has told me that I do owe another human being. I owe him part of my life. That's why I'm in politics.

It's a terrible commentary on society, but I'm afraid we have reached the point where some people, by their acts, do give up their right to survive.

As Justice gives every Man a Title to the product of his honest industry, and the fair Acquisitions of his Ancestors descended to him; so Charity gives every Man a Title to so much out of another’s plenty, as will keep him from extreme want, where he has no means to subsist otherwise.

All human beings are our brother and sisters. Working for their welfare is obligatory for Muslims

What I am interested in is to help this grand President of ours feed the hungry and clothe the naked and provide work for the idle of every race and creed

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

Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

People have a right to certain non-negotiable demands of human dignity.