Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

As civilization advances there is a continual change in the standard of human rights.

The right to education and to free speech having been gained for woman, in the long run every other good thing was sure to be obtained.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... 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.

Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground.

When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

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

But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re- establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family.

Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.

The idea of universal human rights may not seem as weird to some people as the idea of a personal God, but it is still a metaphysical idea that liberalism, at least as we know it, couldn't really survive without.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.

We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

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

The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to perfect our union at home while standing as a beacon of hope to the world. Today, that principle is embodied in agreements Americans helped forge - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and treaties against torture and genocide - and it unites us with people from every country and culture.

All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights.

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.

Sharing experience and building public support for the full range of rights is more powerful than legal cases.

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.