Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human.

Quote by Suzanne Lafollette

Topics: Human Rights Quotes

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he...

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he...

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support...

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support...

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own...

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own...

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes...

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes...

America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the...

America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the...

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a...

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a...

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your...

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your...

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe...

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe...

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our...

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our...

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them...

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them...

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently...

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently...

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very...

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very...

And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress,...

And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress,...

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he...

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he...