Felix Adler Quotes

For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

Human rights are being violated in so many places. But we don't give up because we know respect for human rights and human dignity is a basic condition for peace.

In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

We should not forget that the essence of the European culture is freedom. For the European, freedom is a calling from above as truth and freedom are inseparable.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

We talk about democracy and human rights. Iraqis talk about justice and honor.

Human Rights

Is the Jew a man? He is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, my fellow; and he shall not, if I can prevent it, be a slave! I demand for him equal rights and privileges, and a place within the pale of the Constitution!" Let all the people say, Even so, AMEN!

I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together.

You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.

My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement opponent of oppression and justice.

My belief in human rights includes a fundamental principle that is written into Article 1 of the UN Charter: respect for equal rights and self-determination.