Famous quotes containing the words human rights, human, rights and/or violations:
“We can rejoice that the time has arrived when millions of Negro Americans can step out of the shadows, and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)