James Lankford Quotes

A person's a person, no matter how small.

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

The noble man is only God's image.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

The little man is still a man.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights …. Do not delude yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a country for yourselves.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights and responsibilities. In every other country, they are a guest.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.

I'm a unique person, as everyone is, but none of us has more of a right to existence or a right to specialness or uniqueness than anyone else.

The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of any nation, but are presumed to be claims or entitlements of every human being. They differ, therefore, from constitutionally created rights guaranteed for specific people.

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.