Francis I (Pope) -- (Attribute)
Another fine quotation from WIST - Wish I'd Said That! . Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge...
View ArticleChurchill, Winston -- “The Sinews of Peace,” speech, Westminster College,...
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the...
View ArticleCoolidge, Calvin -- “Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the...
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights...
View ArticleRoosevelt, Eleanor -- Speech, United Nations (27 Mar 1958)
Where after all do universal human rights begin? In small places, closes to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual...
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Zinn, Howard -- “The Optimism of Uncertainty,” The Nation (2 Sep 2004)
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we...
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La Follette, Suzanne -- Concerning Women, “The Beginnings of Emancipation”...
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word “human.” Suzanne La Follette (1893-1983) American journalist, author,...
View ArticleJefferson, Thomas -- Letter to Roger Chew Weightman (24 Jun 1826)
May it be to the world what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all.) the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which Monkish ignorance and...
View ArticleKing, Martin Luther -- Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
Communism reduces men to a cog in the wheel of the state. The communist may object, saying that in Marxian theory the state is an “interim reality” that will “wither away” when the classless society...
View ArticleJefferson, Thomas -- Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes (1819)
The constitutional freedom of religion [is] the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President...
View ArticleO'Rourke, P. J. -- “The Liberty Manifesto,” speech, Cato Institute,...
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. P. J. O'Rourke (b. 1947) American humorist,...
View ArticleHavel, Vaclav -- “An Anatomy of Reticence [Anatomie jedné zdrženlivosti],”...
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public...
View ArticleRogers, Will -- “Weekly Article” column (1923-11-28)
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist“Weekly Article” column (1923-11-28)
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