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* Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Former US President, Four Freedoms Speech, 6 January 1941

No man is above the law and no man below it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
-- Carl T. Rowan

* In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
-- Carl Sagan

* Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.
-- Ginetta Sagan

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.
-- Mother Teresa

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.
-- Bishop Desmond Tutu
"It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant."
-- Bishop Desmond Tutu

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man’s basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.
-- U Thant, Third United Nations Secretary-General, 1961-1971
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
~ U Thant

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Carol Bellamy | Peter Benenson | Stephen Biko
Jimmy Carter | Dalai Lama | Paul Farmer
Peter Gabriel | Mohandas Gandhi | Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Dag Hammarskjold | Thomas Jefferson | Chief Joseph
Bob Marley | Mary Robinson | Eleanor Roosevelt
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