Pope Francis Quotes

There is no right more fundamental than the right to be born and reared with all the dignity the human person deserves.

Nothing... is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

No doubt that a great deal of nonsense has been written about the “unalienable rights of individuals.”

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 cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.

We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide...t here is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

I hope that everyone who believes that the right to life is fundamental will make their voice heard in a reasonable, but forthright, way to their representatives, reminding them that the right to life is conferred on human beings not by the powerful ones of this world but by the Creator.

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

Every human being, including those who belong to the enemy, have rights.

The most general rights, which belong to all mankind, may be said to be the right to life, to liberty and to property.

The Declaration of Independence... is the declaratory charter of our rights, and of the rights of man

One of the eternal rights is the individual’s right to live. The strongest of all instincts—self preservation—is an assertion of that right.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse

One can conclude that certain essential, or fundamental, rights should exist in any just society. It does not follow that each of those essential rights is one that we as judges can enforce under the written Constitution. The Due Process Clause is not a guarantee of every right that should inhere in an ideal system.

It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.