Rosa Parks Quotes

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.

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

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

Rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

All people should be treated equally, regardless of who they are or who they love.

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.

We want equality for everyone and justice when it's time for that.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

I think freedom means freedom for everybody.

Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.

We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.

We are a nation of minorities. In a nation of minorities, you can’t cherry-pick rights.