John J. Myers Quotes

The right to life is the first among human rights.

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

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

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.

People have a right to certain non-negotiable demands of human dignity.

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

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

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

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.

What vested rights so high or so sacred as a man’s right to himself, to his wife and children, to his liberty, and to the fruits of his own industry? Did not our fathers declare that those rights were inalienable?

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

Citizenship is man's basic right for it is nothing less than the right to have rights. Remove this priceless possession and there remains a stateless person, disgraced and degraded in the eyes of his countrymen.

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

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

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

There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

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

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

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.

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

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.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.