Julian Bond Quotes

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

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

To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.

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

Minority rights have to be protected. That is America’s great contribution to the world.

One man’s right is every man’s right.

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

The last time I checked, the only difference between my gay friends and I is who we choose to love. I'm not sure how that warrants a loss of rights, but it needs to stop. What ever happened to liberty and justice for all?

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

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.

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

Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.