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  • Famous quotes by human rights leaders

    Gándhí

    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

    Gándhí

    Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

    Gándhí

    I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

    Gándhí

    The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

    Abraham Lincoln

    I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

    Abraham Lincoln

    No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

    Abraham Lincoln

    I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

    Abraham Lincoln

    When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy

    If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

    Nelson Mandela

    There is no such thing as part freedom.

    Nelson Mandela

    It always seems impossible until it's done.

    George Orwell

    If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

    George Orwell

    Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

    Benjamin Franklin

    The doors of wisdom are never shut.

    Gándhí

    Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

    Ronald Reagan

    Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

    Voltaire

    Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

    Bob Dylan

    A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

    Lech Walesa

    We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

    Václav Havel

    Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.

    Václav Havel

    The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

    Václav Havel

    We should not forget any of those who paid for our present freedom in one way or another.

    Václav Havel

    The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order.