Thomas Steinbeck Quotes

I am passionate about human rights.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

There are times … when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.

My father was a humanitarian, but he didn't side one way or another with any certain right's groups. He just believed in people.

I've always been passionate about human rights in general. I think anyone who knows me can attest to that.

Celebrities like to pay lip service to causes but rarely do so by putting their lives in peril. And even more rarely do they do so in the name of the United States of America, not on their own behalf.

I've always had a 'stand up for the people' type of personality.

I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I espoused human rights in its broadest definition, not only freedom of speech but freedom of assembly, freedom of worship and trial by jury but also the right of people for people to have a decent home to live, food to eat, employment, healthcare, self respect, dignity. So I think the broad gamut of human rights, peace and freedom. I would like to be remembered for those things to the degree that I deserve it and I still have a long way to go.

While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything that's going on.

Philanthropy is in the DNA of my family.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

I believe in people, especially suffering people.

Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.