The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

A human being is a deciding being.

I'm obsessed with being human.

The Indian is a human being.