Leo XIII Quotes

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

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

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

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

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

We ask to be recognized as men.

Oppress not a hired servant ... whether he be of thy brethren or of thy strangers in the land.

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!

The best investment the state can make is liberty and the rule of law—and respect for man’s dignity.

Farm workers are not agricultural implements; they are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded.

When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people - they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.

Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.

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

The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.

You can't deny that if you have, you know, people who think it's okay to talk about women, to disregard the rights of workers, we're in trouble as an inclusive world.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

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

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

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.

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.