Rosa Parks Quotes

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

The rights of the lowliest criminal are not his alone. They belong to us all.

It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.

Civil Rights ... include and embrace every right that pertains to the citizen.

… a social right

I never knew I had so many rights.

You can’t just say you have rights. You have to use them to prove that you have them.

Fundamental is the need for governments to protect the space for citizens to claim their rights, organize, and express themselves.

If we are Russian citizens, treat us as Russian citizens. We want equality and justice.

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.

We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

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.

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.

I'm not politically vocal. I just want what's best for our country. I want our rights respected and those of my son's.