Antonio Guterres Quotes

In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.

Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

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

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

Peace is a human right and those who deny you peace are those who are violating an essential right.

All the problems that fall to the League may ultimately be reduced to one - that of man, and the dignity of man.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

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

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

We talk about democracy and human rights. Iraqis talk about justice and honor.

From today onwards, all tyranny, injustice, atrocities, deportations and massacres are banished from this country.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

I am passionate about human rights.

Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.