America's support for human rights and democracy is our…

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

— Elliott Abrams

America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable…

— John F. Kerry

I will do everything in my power to ensure we provide every single person in America with the support they need.

— Jeff Van Drew

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should…

— Samuel P. Huntington

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

— Wynton Marsalis

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

— Akbar Ganji

We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby…

— George Meany

“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It was in…

— Howard Zinn

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

— Olof Palme

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