37 Quotes About Humanity, Human Rights, Racism, Feminism, Freedom
1. "Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning." (Benazir Bhutto) Click to tweet
2. "Gay rights are human rights." (Hillary Clinton) Click to tweet
3. "Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation." (Coretta Scott King) Click to tweet
4. "Kids know nothing about racism. They’re taught that by adults." (Ruby Bridges) Click to tweet
5. "We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others." (Will Rogers) Click to tweet
6. "To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity." (Nelson Mandela) Click to tweet
7. "A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men." (Gloria Steinem) Click to tweet
8. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." (Mahatma Gandhi) Click to tweet
9. "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free." (Charles Dickens) Click to tweet
10. "Men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share?" (Anne Frank) Click to tweet
11. "People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion." (Anne Frank) Click to tweet
12. "Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity." (Desmond Tutu) Click to tweet
13. "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." (Desmond Tutu) Click to tweet
14. "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." (Aung San Suu Kyi) Click to tweet
15. "History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
16. "All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty." (Miguel Angel Ruiz) Click to tweet
17. "There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take… the line between reason and madness grows thinner." (Rosa Parks) Click to tweet
18. "I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and i should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because i was black." (Rosa Parks) Click to tweet
19. "The more people know about their rights, and the rights of others in society, the better equipped they are to protect them." (Salil Shetty) Click to tweet
20. "Where do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Click to tweet
21. "Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings." (Margaret Atwood) Click to tweet
22. "I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free." (Rosa Parks) Click to tweet
23. "Part 2. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the american dream – a dream yet unfulfilled." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
24. "Part 4. A dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
25. "Part 6. The dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
26. "Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another." (Desmond Tutu) Click to tweet
27. "As far back as i can remember, i knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin." (Rosa Parks) Click to tweet
28. "Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class – which again breeds isolation, loneliness." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet
29. "I don’t want to be thought of as “the girl who was shot by the taliban”, but “the girl who fought for education”. This is the cause to which i want to devote my life." (Malala Yousafzai) Click to tweet
30. "Part 1. I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as negroes, jews, italians or any other distinctions." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
31. "Part 3. 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." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
32. "Part 5. 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." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
33. "I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights." (Desmond Tutu) Click to tweet
34. "All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual toward freedom." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet
35. "Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation… in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When the world looks to america, america looks to you, and you never let her down." (Hillary Clinton) Click to tweet
36. "I embrace the label of bad feminist because i am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say i have all the answers. I am not trying to say i’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what i believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself." (Roxane Gay) Click to tweet 37. "So here i stand. So here i stand, one girl, among many. I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated." (Malala Yousafzai) Click to tweet
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