It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Human rights in China should absolutely play a role in broader U.S. policy toward China. When we look the other way on… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
China-led globalization in some ways worries me because they are not concerned about human rights, labor rights. They probably aren't even really… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is, by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
I'm very careful not to isolate Israel on this but to make this part of a transformed foreign policy where we apply… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are… — Emma Sulkowicz Copy Share Image
My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“Even in the context of suffering—poverty, violence, human rights violations—not belonging in our families is still one of the most dangerous hurts.… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
“The thing is we never needed anyone's consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or… — H. V. Evatt Copy Share Image
“[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation… — United Nations Copy Share Image
“We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
The way we need to view aid is as a fulfillment of rights, and Mexico, as other countries around the world, have… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“fact, by any reasonable standard, global religious repression constitutes a human rights catastrophe. As noted earlier, the nonpartisan Pew Research Center concluded… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
“In the absence of strong political movements for human rights, the active process of bearing witness inevitably gives way to the active… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Thousands of people's lives improved in this country through human rights laws. Individual people taking on the all-powerful state and winning. You'd… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“What a man! He certainly seems to have the run of this country. Just shows how one can push a democracy around,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Matatizo ya kijamii, kimiiko, kimaadili, kisiasa, na kiroho; hayataweza kutatuliwa kwa pesa, vikao vya kifamilia, haki za binadamu, usalama wa taifa, au… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I think it's extremely valuable for us to be able to have a conversation in more than one dialect, speaking to more… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The United States will rightfully go on deploring human rights excesses in the Soviet Union. And it is hardly likely Americans will… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question,… — John Michael Sherlock Copy Share Image
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