The right to live is the most basic of human rights.

The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.

— Elizabeth Holmes

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

— Mark Frost

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself…

— Anonymous

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the…

— Anonymous

While the One Child Policy has been effective in drastically reducing Chinese birth rates, the measures adopted in its name have required exhaustive, violent,…

— Kerry Kennedy

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.…

— Tom Stoppard

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the…

— Breyten Breytenbach

Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.

— Dominic Raab

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

— Samantha Power

I've always been passionate about human rights in general. I think anyone who knows me can attest to that.

— Lauren Jauregui

Korra and Aang ultimately stand for freedom, equality, and basic human rights, and I think Mike and I are fine with pushing that agenda.

— Bryan Konietzko

South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated…

— Stephen Kinzer