It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human… — Peter Tatchell Copy Share Image
If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
If a country dares to put his boots on Syrian soil, more countries would have the courage to stand behind to defend… — Mattias Konradsson Copy Share Image
We need to scrap the Human Rights Act and need a balance between rights and responsibilities. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. — William Pitt The Younger Copy Share Image
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
We've come a long way, but we still have a long way to go. The fight for equality isn't over yet. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
At the State Department, where I oversaw our human rights diplomacy, I often confronted dictatorships like China about their censorship of the… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody out there in the media, U.N., human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
Using human rights commitments more effectively, either as part of negotiations in the WTO or as part of the trade policy review… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
I can make a joke pointing out that David Cameron told off Sri Lanka for human rights abuses committed with weapons Britain… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
“I'm not concerned with paid assassins ... mindless, soulless animals who excel at nothing else. But you, Erik ... you love all… — Susan Kay, Phantom Copy Share Image
“But that's always a certain way to recognise a facist: when he's more powerful he kills everything that's different from him, he… — Andrej Nikolaidis Copy Share Image
Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
O.J. Simpson existed in a bubble. So when Harry Edwards approached him about being involved in the Olympic Project for Human Rights,… — Ezra Edelman Copy Share Image
“To selflessly love another creature is to be open to loving other humans, who are animals as much as pandas, cows, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
