Rollo May Quotes

Wherever there is repression of the individual, wherever there are acts contrary to the nature of the individual, there can be no greater crime.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

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

Let's resolve to never be a bystander in the fight for human dignity

Let us not despair; it is a blessed cause, and success, ere long, will crown our exertions. Already we have gained one victory; we have obtained, for these poor creatures, the recognition of their human nature, which, for a while was most shamefully denied. This is the first fruits of our efforts; let us persevere and our triumph will be complete. Never, never will we desist till we have wiped away this scandal from the Christian name, released ourselves from the load of guilt, under which we at present labour, and extinguished every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times, will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonour to this country.

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.

Let us not despair; it is a blessed cause, and success, ere long, will crown our exertions. Already we have gained one victory; we have obtained, for these poor creatures, the recognition of their human nature, which, for a while was most shamefully denied. This is the first fruits of our efforts; let us persevere and our triumph will be complete

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

I'm pro-human. And I think recognizing the human nature of migration is very important.

Where there are breaches of human rights, you need to speak out about it, no matter where it is.

There was a time that human rights was not even an issue in this country. Then prisoners' rights became an issue.

Human suffering is not, nor should it ever be, a political issue.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Every human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.

Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."

If we want to do away with the injustice to gays it will not be done because we get rid of the injustice to gays. It will be done because we are forwarding the effort for the elimination of injustice to all. And we will win the rights for gays, or blacks, or Hispanics, or women within the context of whether we are fighting for all.

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.

Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.