Eleanor Roosevelt Rights Quotations

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.