Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

The lesson of history that all human rights are indivisible and that the failure to adhere to this principle jeopardizes the rights of all.

I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

We do not have the right to discriminate against people.

Everyone must have their rights, and in fact everyone gets their rights.

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.

We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.

I support making sure that there are legal protects for everyone.

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

One man’s right is every man’s right.

Rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Asserting the equality of all men before the law, we hold that it is the duty of the government, in its dealings with the people, to mete out equal and exact justice to all citizens, of whatever nativity, race or persuasion—religious or political.

I recognize no rights but human rights—I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

Why should we in America be second best in anything when it comes to human rights?

Where after all do universal human rights begin? In small places, closes to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

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