Barack Obama Quotes

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

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

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

I will always work for human rights for all people.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

One man’s right is every man’s right.

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

The rights of the lowliest criminal are not his alone. They belong to us all.

Human Rights

For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.

Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.

I think I'm a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of their gender, caste, class, socio-economic strata, disabilities, political stance, religion or faith.

I stand up for all rights.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

All men & women are created equal

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.