Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

I'm trying to fight so that people can have better.

I am passionate about human rights.

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

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

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.

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

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.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

Create power for the powerless.

You can't build a new society by violating the rights of others.

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

If you wish the Jews to become better men and useful citizens, then banish every humiliating restriction, open to them every avenue of gaining a livelihood.

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.

For sure, I think that's the mission in all life, whether it's basketball, being a doctor, building a company. I think we take social justice and the lessons we're learning now, that everybody is learning.

I think Pride, it means ultimately, finally, being able to live with freedom in some ways. Or, at least, that's what we're striving for.

I stand up for all rights.

All of us, we deserve to survive.

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.