Ronald Reagan Quotes

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.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

Establish democracy ... based on human rights as superior to property rights.

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

The lesson of history that all human rights are indivisible and that the failure to adhere to this principle jeopardizes the rights of all.

We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground.

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

I will always work for human rights for all people.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

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.

There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.