Business must go on reiterating its absolute commitment to embedding human rights in all it does, driving industry change through collaboration with… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism… — Yelena Bonner Copy Share Image
In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to… — Martin Almada Copy Share Image
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
Naming a street in Washington, D.C., after Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy advocate and journalist standing up for human rights in Hong Kong,… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
And occasionally some of the - some of the nations that you will have to - that will be partners in this… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
Strip away the factual misinformation repeatedly peddled about the Human Rights Act and almost everyone acknowledges that it works well in practice.… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
“First of all, they came to take the gypsies and I was happy because they pilfered. Then they came to take the… — Bertold Brecht Copy Share Image
With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
“Beyond the Nature of Truth (The Sonnet) Do you realize how serious the situation is, Are you aware of the lives ruined… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Most of the things I'm talking about are essential human rights. I don't think it should be political to say that children… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“The national curriculum for the Swedish preschool is twenty pages long and goes on at length about things like fostering respect for… — Linda Akeson McGurk Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
I've learned powerful lessons about the nature of forgiveness from human rights defenders. For example, for the greater good of his country,… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them.… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And… — Bono Copy Share Image
What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let's celebrate freedom by promoting a human rights culture in which respect, dignity and equality become a code for living. Freedom is… — Vikas Runwal Copy Share Image
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impassable with our… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person,… — Maria Julia Hernandez Copy Share Image
United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people,… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
At the Human Rights Foundation, I love being able to drive an interview and value-connecting with someone I'm interviewing so that they… — Elizabeth Chambers Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
“The right to the pursuit of happiness, originally envisaged as a restraint on state power, has imperceptibly morphed into the right to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It is clear that Germany needs a foreign policy in which we jointly define European interests. Thus far, we have often defined… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We all have a mission to accomplish in this life... Mine is the one to show everyone that, by respecting one another's… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
