Desmond Tutu Quotes

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.

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.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

I stand up for all rights.

I am passionate about human rights.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation 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 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.

Freedom is not enough.

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

Is the Jew a man? He is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, my fellow; and he shall not, if I can prevent it, be a slave! I demand for him equal rights and privileges, and a place within the pale of the Constitution!" Let all the people say, Even so, AMEN!

Here everyone is his own master. Civil liberty places all inhabitants on an equal footing. The humble cannot be oppressed by the mighty, nor the poor by the rich.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

The vision of Israel's prophets became the pillar of fire leading the struggle in support of the weak and the different towards equality.

I think a big part of my faith teachings is to work together towards equality: that we're all created equal, and under the eyes of God, we all have a right to freedom and to access our rights equally.

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

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

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

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.