An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
James Baldwin (1924-1987, American author)
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
Robert Burns (1759-1796, Scottish poet)
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter (1924-, American President (39th))
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940, American anarchist)
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."
Suzanne Lafollette (1893-1983, American feminist, writer)
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
Ashley Montagu (1905-1999, British anthropologist)
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation...
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
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