There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience.
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The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.