“To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“In times of war, the law falls silent. Silent enim leges inter arma ” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I interjected saying one would generally have to be human to have human rights.” — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them… — Lara Logan Copy Share Image
Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could… — Elizabeth Evatt Copy Share Image
Criticism of the Middle East should not be directed only at Saudi Arabia. Human rights abuses are happening throughout the Arab world. — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people's bedrooms. I appoint people based on… — Portia Simpson-Miller Copy Share Image
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they… — Peter Munk Copy Share Image
Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Contrary to the myth that the U.K. respects decisions of the Strasbourg court but many other adherent states do not, the convention… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“To evoke another great phrase of the American revolutionary heritage — widely though inconclusively attributed to Thomas Jefferson — the price of… — David Andress Copy Share Image
There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of… — John Dramani Mahama Copy Share Image
“As I write this, we are in an especially divisive era in American politics. There are questions about who holds power, who… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
In human rights theory it is very important that governments still have the primary responsibility for the standards and provision of such… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“Ljudsko pravo prekida pravo naroda, ljudsko pravo također prekida pravo kulture.” — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
“It's not about insisting one's right; it's about maintaining everyone's peace.” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress, — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
