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3. “An unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.”
Isaac Asimov
Materialism Greed, Social Injustice, Human Rights, Democracy, Corruption, Society
10. “Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X Education, Human Rights, Self-respect, Future, Preparation
12. “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Human Rights, Freedom Of Expression, Universal Rights, Information, Global Communication
17. “Freedom, to be desirable, involves kindness, wisdom, and all the virtues of the free; but the free man as we have seen him in action has been, as of yore, only the master of many helots; and the slaves are still ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-taught, ill-housed, insolently treated, and driven to their mines and workshops by the lash of famine.” Robert Louis Stevenson Freedom, Societal Inequality, Power Dynamics, Moral Virtues, Social Justice, Human Rights
21. “If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but run their devouring course, destroying the very foundations which it was imagined they would save.” James Baldwin Social Justice, Inequality, Human Rights, Collective Safety, Social Unrest
28. “Let us say, then, that truth, as used here, is meant to imply a devotion to the human being, his freedom and fulfillment; freedom which cannot be legislated, fulfillment which cannot be charted.” James Baldwin Truth, Human freedom, Personal fulfillment, Self-determination, Moral philosophy, Human rights
Human Rights Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “An unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.”
Isaac Asimov Materialism Greed, Social Injustice, Human Rights, Democracy, Corruption, Society
10. “Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
Malcolm X Education, Human Rights, Self-respect, Future, Preparation
12. “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald Human Rights, Freedom Of Expression, Universal Rights, Information, Global Communication
17. “Freedom, to be desirable, involves kindness, wisdom, and all the virtues of the free; but the free man as we have seen him in action has been, as of yore, only the master of many helots; and the slaves are still ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-taught, ill-housed, insolently treated, and driven to their mines and workshops by the lash of famine.”
Robert Louis Stevenson Freedom, Societal Inequality, Power Dynamics, Moral Virtues, Social Justice, Human Rights
21. “If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but run their devouring course, destroying the very foundations which it was imagined they would save.”
James Baldwin Social Justice, Inequality, Human Rights, Collective Safety, Social Unrest
28. “Let us say, then, that truth, as used here, is meant to imply a devotion to the human being, his freedom and fulfillment; freedom which cannot be legislated, fulfillment which cannot be charted.”
James Baldwin Truth, Human freedom, Personal fulfillment, Self-determination, Moral philosophy, Human rights
