Hubert Humphrey Quotes

The rights given in the Constitution are given to all people—the most popular and the least popular.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

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

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

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

There is no declaration of rights … the declaration of rights in the separate states are no security

Rights that depend on the sufferance of the State are of uncertain tenure.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign...

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

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.

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

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.

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

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

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.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.