It is individuals who have human rights, not religions or…

It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

— Alfred Adler

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

— Roger Ebert

“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury…

— Alfred Adler

The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has…

— Italo Calvino

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

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

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

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

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

— Cyril Ramaphosa

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