We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone…

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

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding…

— Michael McCaul

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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