Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
~ James Baldwin - [Human Rights]

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
~ Jimmy Carter - [Human Rights]

The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; in fact, spirit is the essence of being human. You have a body that may become ill; you have a psyche that may become disturbed. But the spirit is what you are. It is your healthy core.
~ Joseph Fabry - [Human Spirit]

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
~ Emma Goldman - [Human Rights]

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
~ Victor Hugo - [Human Rights]

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey - [Human Spirit]

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
~ John F. Kennedy - [Human Spirit]

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word ''human.''
~ Suzanne Lafollette - [Human Rights]

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
~ Walter Lippmann - [Humanism]

The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
~ Philipus A. Paracelsus - [Human Spirit]