I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination. — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security interests by ignoring or sidelining human… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To ask for 'our rights' is our right... the state may or may not accede to our demands... but our right to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
It's widely recognized that there is no peace without development and no development without peace; it is also true that there is… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the… — Sadako Ogata Copy Share Image
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“There are some that criticize and insult because they feel my views of how we should treat one another are too conservative.… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right? — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
“Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all, — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
U.S. lawmakers should take a firm and principled stand consistent with their rhetoric about the importance of human rights and democracy in… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“With "gay marriage," the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexuals finishing what faithless, selfish heterosexuals have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You want Change, today we'll show you Change! Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential. — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Human beings are equal to one another. No one has any right nor any preference to claim over another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible. — Theo van Boven Copy Share Image
