Malcolm X Quotes

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Human Rights

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King Jr Quotes.

My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.

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.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

We ask to be recognized as men.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

Equal Rights

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

The rights of the lowliest criminal are not his alone. They belong to us all.

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!