Bernard Lewis Quotes

My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.

When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully to Africa and Latin America and the entire Islamic world. The peoples of the Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities as people in every nation. And their governments should listen to their hopes.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

All of us are called to fight #‎ humantraffickin g and #‎ slavery .

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.

It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism and have led men to give their lives for things which make life worthwhile, can also become a trap, the means of destroying the very things men desire to uphold.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it is the person's right to live his freedom and it is her and his right to face the injustice imposed on each by revolting against it, using his practical, realistic and available means to end the oppressor's injustice toward him, whether it is an individual, a community, a nation, or a state; whether male or female.

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.

Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.