Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close 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. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with hu...man rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men who... were disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now you're not gonna have a country that can make these kinds of rules work, if you haven't got men that have learned to tell huma...n rights from a punch in the nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle fo...r influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... ar...e looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or "broken heart," is excuse for cutting off one's life while a...ny power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »