Enes Kanter Quotes

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

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

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.

I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of a civil society …. This will come.

When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people - they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.

Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.

Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great as it is.

Freedom of expression is very important.

Don't be afraid - if you don't exercise your rights, you will lose them.

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.

The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.

I am passionate about human rights.

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the community to participate in the decisions and institutions that shape their lives must be continually debated, safeguarded, and preserved at all costs.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

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

This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.

In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

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.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.