What do Rights and Freedom mean to you?

What do Rights and Freedom mean to you? These perspectives will shape your understanding. Wise words from wise people!

“The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.”

– Stjepan Mesic


“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

– John F. Kennedy


“Because to take away a man’s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”

– Madeleine L’Engle


“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.”

– Elie Wiesel


“It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.”

– Teri Reynolds


The dignity of man is the dignity of the human being as a person—a dignity that is not possessed by things

– Mortimer Adler