It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Humanitarian assistance and exchanges are still allowed, even under the sanctions regime on North Korea. Therefore, in parallel with sanctions and pressure,… — Moon Jae-in Copy Share Image
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
Human rights groups around the world, certainly sees that Saddam Hussein makes Slobodan Milosevic, who is a war criminal, look like a… — Curt Weldon Copy Share Image
We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in,… — Roma Tearne Copy Share Image
Agencies must know who they are accountable to. If the agencies know who they are accountable to but we cannot say who… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
“The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule of law and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Or why should one refrain from burning hatred, whatever its basis--race, class, or ideology? Such hatred is in fact corroding many hearts… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the… — U Thant Copy Share Image
The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Fallujah was a Guernica with no Picasso. A city of 300,000 was deprived of water, electricity, and food, emptied of most of… — Jean Bricmont Copy Share Image
“MR. CORPORATION It happened in Washington in 1886. Gargantuan companies won the same legal rights as regular home-grown citizens. The Supreme Court… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization,… — Derrick Jensen 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
“They talk about human rights until the rights include things they personally do not like as alternatives. There needs to be Frank… — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Because no matter who we are or where we come from, we're all entitled to the basic human rights of clean air… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't… — Mehcad Brooks Copy Share Image
It's one thing to say you're feminist, but then what does that mean? Not selling arms to a regime that is the… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Snowden’s itinerary does, however, seem to bear the fingerprints of Julian Assange. Assange was often quick to criticise the US and other… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
“By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
We've got to listen to other people's voices, respect them, but keep in mind, and I believe in terms of the things… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
..I think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall… — Martin Ennals Copy Share Image
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human rights without responsibility, without a sense of decency, a sense of compassion, is not good enough for a society to flourish...… — Tu Weiming Copy Share Image
“This isn’t a lie. It’s imagination. Like money, limited liability companies and human rights, nations and consumer tribes are inter-subjective realities. They… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
As a follower of Jesus, I am called to work for justice and reconciliation, and to be an advocate for those who… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition,… — Kay Granger Copy Share Image
We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views.… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
The industry of political conflict is the biggest industry in Bosnia, and it is still not exhausted. What is needed is to… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
