In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I absolutely believe that America has a responsibility, and the privilege of helping defend freedom and promote the principles that make the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Human rights start with the freedom of equal income and educational opportunity. The deep-rooted inequalities like gender, colour, race and religion discriminations… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has… — Thomas de Maiziere Copy Share Image
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You can see our media appearances as well as connect to Our Power to the People Agenda, Our Green New Deal, our… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
Because I play in the NBA, I am lucky enough to have a public platform, so I've used every opportunity to make… — Enes Kanter Copy Share Image
“There was a problem: No one cared about human rights anymore, not at home or abroad. They cared about growth--hoped for and… — Daniel Alarcón Copy Share Image
“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And… — Haile Selassie I Copy Share Image
The rationale for universal compassion is based on the same principle of spiritual democracy. It is the recognition of the fact that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day,… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“The failure of Communism was consecrated in the fall of the Soviet Union. The remarkable thing is that, as in most cases… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity… — Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Copy Share Image
“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals... all equal... the strong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We seek in Central America not peace alone, not peace to be followed someday by political progress, but peace and democracy, together,… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
That's one of the things that I'm going to talk about, is the need for the Human Rights Council to actually deal… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
Should the U.S. grant preferential treatment on trade to an egregious human rights violator that allows human traffickers to operate unencumbered within… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights, and that women… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
The sanctions have been a key element in making sure that those who have violated human rights and are guilty of corruption… — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
“In a way, this judgment has taken forward the jurisprudential strategy in Vishaka of reading into our constitutional law the global concepts… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“It's illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you're the government. It's illegal to take someone's liberty, unless you're the government.… — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories… — Daoud Hari Copy Share Image
The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image