No President has ever done more for human rights than I…

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

— Cyril Ramaphosa

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

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

The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights…

— Roger Waters

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

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

— Dominic Raab

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

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

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting…

— Francois Hollande

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

— Samantha Power

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

— Ed Markey

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

— George W. Bush

UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after…

— Kofi Annan

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

— Gary L. Francione