Pope John Paul II Quotes

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

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

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.

Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a platform, democracy, freedom, respect of human rights that we would like to see respected all over the world and also, a peaceful world order.

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.

As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all.

All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.

The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.

We cannot guarantee the human rights of any oppressed group alone.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.

Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.

It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity.

We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights — and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.

The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to perfect our union at home while standing as a beacon of hope to the world. Today, that principle is embodied in agreements Americans helped forge - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and treaties against torture and genocide - and it unites us with people from every country and culture.