The year 2015 brought me so many further chances to spread the word about human rights violations in North Korea, from addressing… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
I would like to see an agreement that recognizes that we live on the same planet and that some interests, such as… — Ninian Smart 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Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question,… — John Michael Sherlock Copy Share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
“This place does not feel like my country. It feels like countries I have read about where things are very bad. It… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“The good performed by some of United Nations institutions, such as the World Health Organization and UNICEF, has been outweighed by the… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
We must think of millions of people who have had to cross national borders and seek protection as refugees; of millions of… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance,… — Poul Hartling Copy Share Image
Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Great, America Great The god of all nations Lord of all states Voice of the voiceless Strength of the weak Eyes of… — Ezekiel Peace Igbodo (aka Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“So how did it come to this? Why did the Australian government have to provide a protection visa for José on the… — steve cannane Copy Share Image
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country,… — Fatou Bensouda Copy Share Image
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when… — Michael Ignatieff 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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