The document contains quotes from various prominent figures throughout history on the topics of human rights, freedom, equality, and dignity. Many of the quotes discuss how human rights are essential for development and apply universally to all people regardless of factors like race, religion, or nationality. Several quotes also emphasize that human rights must be protected locally in everyday lives and communities in order to have meaningful impact.

1. Quotes

2.  For too long the development debate
has ignored the fact that poverty
Kofi Annan tends to be characterized not only by
material insufficiency but also by
denial of rights. What is needed is a
rights-based approach to
development. Ensuring essential
political, economic and social
entitlements and human dignity for
all people provides the rationale for
policy. These are not a luxury
affordable only to the rich and
powerful but an indispensable
component of national development
efforts.

3.  What we want to see is the
development of human rights and
Tony Blair greater democracy, not just
because it is our system but
because we think that’s the best
way that economic and political
development go hand in hand.

4.  When it comes to the common
George W. rights and needs of men and
Bush women, there is no clash of
civilizations. The requirements of
freedom apply fully to Africa and
Latin America and the entire
Islamic world. The peoples of the
Islamic nations want and deserve
the same freedoms and
opportunities as people in every
nation. And their governments
should listen to their hopes.

5.  I look forward confidently to the day when
all who work for a living will be one with no
Martin Luther thought to their separateness as Negroes,
King, Jr. Jews, Italians or any other distinctions.
This will be the day when we bring into full
realization the American dream -- a dream
yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of
opportunity, of privilege and property
widely distributed; a dream of a land where
men will not take necessities from the many
to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a
land where men will not argue that the
color of a man's skin determines the
content of his character; a dream of a
nation where all our gifts and resources are
held not for ourselves alone, but as
instruments of service for the rest of
humanity; the dream of a country where
every man will respect the dignity and
worth of the human personality.

6.  All human beings, whatever their
cultural or historical
Dalai Lama background, suffer when they are
intimidated, imprisoned or
tortured . . . . We
must, therefore, insist on a global
consensus, not only on the need
to respect human rights
worldwide, but also on the
definition of these rights . . . for it
is the inherent nature of all
human beings to yearn for
freedom, equality and
dignity, and they have an equal
right to achieve that.

7.  First they came for the Jews and I
Pastor Martin did not speak out -- because I was
Niemoeler not a Jew. Then they came for the
communists and I did not speak
out -- because I was not a
communist. Then they came for
the trade unionists and I did not
speak out -- because I was not a
trade unionist. Then they came
for me -- and there was no one
left to speak out for me.

8.  If civilization is to survive, we
Franklin D. must cultivate the science of
Roosevelt human relationships -- the ability
of all peoples, of all kinds, to live
together, in the same world at
peace.

9.  Where after all do universal human
Eleanor rights begin? In small places, closes
Roosevelt 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 person: The
neighborhood he lives in; the school
or college he attends; the
factory, farm or office where he
works. Such are the places where
every man, woman, and child seeks
equal justice, equal
opportunity, equal dignity without
discrimination. Unless these rights
have meaning there, they have little
meaning anywhere.

10.  Spread love everywhere you go:
first of all in your own house. Give
Mother Teresa love to your children, to your wife
or husband, to a next door
neighbor . . . . Let no one ever
come to you without leaving
better and happier. Be the living
expression of God's kindness;
kindness in your face, kindness in
your eyes, kindness in your smile,
kindness in your warm greeting.

11.  The rights of every man are
John F. diminished when the rights of one
Kennedy man are threatened.

12.  Wherever men and women are
persecuted because of their race,
Elie Wiesel religion, or political views, that
place must — at that moment —
become the center of the universe

13.  When we struggle for human
rights, for freedom, for dignity,
Oscar Romero when we feel that it is a ministry
of the church to concern itself for
those who are hungry, for those
who have no schools, for those
who are deprived, we are not
departing from God’s promise. He
comes to free us from sin, and the
church knows that sin’s
consequences are all such
injustices and abuses.

14.  Human rights are a fine thing, but
Aleksandr I. how can we be sure that our
Solzhenitsyn rights do not expand at the
expense of the rights of others. . . .
Human freedom includes
voluntary self-limitation for the
sake of others.

15.  The true civilization is where
Robert G. every man gives to every other
Ingersoll man every right he claims for
himself.

16.  We must understand the role of
Mary human rights as empowering of
Robinson individuals and communities. By
protecting these rights, we can
help prevent the many conflicts
based on poverty, discrimination
and exclusion (social, economic
and political) that continue to
plague humanity and destroy
decades of development efforts.