Kris Kristofferson Quotes

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

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

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

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

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

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

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

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

How many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free?

What rights don't they have?

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

Is Justice to be established by subjecting half of mankind to the will of the other half? Justice, Sir, is blind to colors, and weighs in equal scales the rights of all men whether white or black…. An opportunity is now presented, if not to diminish, at least to prevent the growth of a sin that sits heavy on the soul of every one of us.

This is not a question of expediency, but of right. In antebellum days the proposition was not, “Are the blacks good enough to be free?” but, “Have they the right?” So today the question is not, “Will outrages result from freeing humanity?” but, “Has it the right to life, the means of life, the opportunities of happiness?”

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

I'm against torture. I'm also against terrorism.

If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.