Human rights Quotes · Page 11

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

— Dag Hammarskjold

“Human rights that do not apply to everyone are not human rights at all.”

— Volker Beck

When the good run from the bad, the bad win.

— Patrick Atkinson

I believe that reproductive rights are human rights, and they are nonnegotiable.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

“In the biological sense, race does not exist.”

— Abhijit Naskar

There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights.

— Linda Sarsour

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

— Richard Stallman

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death,

— Harry A. Blackmun

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

— Anonymous

The record of human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party is as horrific as it is long.

— Michelle Steel

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice…

— Fidel Castro

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

— Charlotte Bunch

The Human Rights Act is a really important constitutional document, it isn't just a villain's charter.

— Keir Starmer

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American…

— Jesse Jackson

Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.

— Dith Pran

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he…

— Rand Paul

It is, for me, clear that the world needs a United States that is engaged in security issues, in development issues, in…

— Antonio Guterres

I have never criticised the Thai government. I was only invited there to share my experiences of being a young man who…

— Joshua Wong

I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to…

— Erskine Caldwell

“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree…

— Aberjhani

Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and…

— Kofi Annan

A lot of the countries of Latin America, they may not agree on everything, from how to run your economy to human…

— Margaret Warner

Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third…

— Kofi Annan

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council…

— Francois Hollande

Men realize that they have work to do, to pull up women and take ownership on where we are as a society,…

— Julie Smolyansky

“Even when the 13th Amendment was passed to abolish slavery with an exception of servitude as a penalty for criminal conviction, the…

— Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele

“The FfP uses twelve indicators to measure state failure, and Egypt scored a stellar nine out of ten in criminalization or delegitimization…

— John R. Bradley

“I reiterate my dedication to advocating for effective preventive strategies to end gun violence once and for all. In the face of the…

— Widad Akreyi

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has…

— Mary Robinson

“A pompous, arrogant, narcissistic intellectual came up to me at a conference and said rather boastfully. "You must feel really good about…

— Abhijit Naskar

The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the…

— Albert Schweitzer

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

— Anonymous

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.”

— David T. Dellinger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

— Bianca Jagger

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

— Peter Krause

I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life.

— Sanjay Rawal