Tamzin Merchant Quotes

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

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

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.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us as Canadians.

I am passionate about human 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.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

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.

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.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

If you want peace, work for justice.

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

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!

I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-to-day: work, life. But people are sensitive to national rights.

I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.

I'm trying to fight so that people can have better.

I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.

I stand up for all rights.

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

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.