To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

If one were to rob human beings of the power to do and say what they please, that would be to take away, and to curtail the first principle of independence.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free. How can one not be sensitive to their plight? Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

In every part of the world, wherever you begin by denying the fundamental liberties of mankind, and equality among people, you move toward the concentration camp system, and it is a road on which it is difficult to halt.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

If we choose not to get involved or pretend it's not happening, we're going against the very sense of connection that makes us human.

Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não merecem para si mesmos.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

The challenge to each human is creation.

It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.