Mahmoud Abbas Quotes

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

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.

All the problems that fall to the League may ultimately be reduced to one - that of man, and the dignity of man.

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!

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

I am passionate about human rights.

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

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.

I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.

We ask to be recognized as men.

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.

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.

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

Our country has, in my judgment, thus far fulfilled its highest duty to suffering humanity. It has spoken and will continue to speak, not only by its words, but by its acts, the language of sympathy, encouragement, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest rational liberty.