Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.

No doubt it is also necessary to improve the classes who now oppress you, but you will never succeed in doing this unless you begin by improving yourselves.

Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.

I want more people to hear me and be part of the change that everyone would benefit from: the change we need so that people like me can be safe and happy.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother [and sister] who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone has something to offer the movement of justice

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.

I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.

I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.

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

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.