10 December 2015 Human Rights Day Quotes Sayings Wishes Status and Greetings

Human Rights Day Quotes Sayings Wishes Status Greetings Images Photos : Every year on 10th December International Humans Day is celebrated in India and all over worldwide with great joy and happiness to increase the awareness of rights for all humans. The date was chosen to honour the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human rights and one of the first major achievements of the new United Nations. The theme of 2015 Human Rights Day is “Our Rights, Our Freedoms, Always.”. 

Human Rights Day Quotes Sayings Status 2015

Today, poverty prevails as the gravest human rights challenge in the world. Combating poverty, deprivation and exclusion is not a matter of charity, and it does not depend on how rich a country is. By tackling poverty as a matter of human rights obligation, the world will have a better chance of abolishing this scourge in our lifetime… Poverty eradication is an achievable goal.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, 10 December 2006.

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To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Nelson Mandela

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Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

Pope Francis

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The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

Paul Farmer

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If a country doesn’t recognize minority rights and human rights, including women’s rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Hillary Clinton

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“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
John F. Kennedy

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“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
Frederick Douglass

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

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“To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.”
William Pickens

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The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Rowan D. Williams

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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s interests without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Carl Schurz

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“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
Margaret Sanger

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“human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.”
Hayley Williams

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