Human rights Quotes · Page 12

“I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... that their fear is genuine.”

— Widad Akrawi

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

— Mary Robinson

The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

— Opal Tometi

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

— Eve Curie

I want to study law, become a lawyer, and work in Afghanistan for human rights.

— Sonita Alizadeh

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

— Paul Farmer

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

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.

— Thomas Szasz

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

— Grimes

“I will follow anyone and tell everyone my message because it is urgent: Please humanity Protect Yazidis.”

— Widad Akrawi

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

— Elliott Abrams

“Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt.”

— Bernard Schaffer

“Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle… Goats are used for sacrificial…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

We want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined in the U.N. Charter: peace, justice, respect, human…

— Antonio Guterres

Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

— Nazanin Boniadi

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in…

— Jeremy Corbyn

Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True…

— Dalai Lama

We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights…

— Malcolm X

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It…

— Bianca Jagger

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point -…

— Omar Bongo

I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace,…

— Ban Ki-moon

Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty…

— George W. Bush

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk…

— Elliott Abrams

In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of…

— Mick Dodson

When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced,…

— Barack Obama

The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and…

— Paul Kurtz

Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his…

— Maya Angelou

“It seems to me that the greatest triumph of any human rights movement, be it fighting for racial, religious, sexual or gender…

— Kate Griffin

When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay. Cause I could draw, my uncle was and I…

— Macklemore Ryan Lewis

Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the…

— Jonathan Haidt

“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?”…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer…

— Shirley Chisholm

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

— Albert Einstein

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

— Oliver Stone

“Naskar is a madness, signpost of love against lies.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'll happily pay more taxes if we all have equal human rights.

— Trisha Paytas

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

— Danielle Steel

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

— Ai Weiwei

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

— Mary Robinson

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

— John F. Kennedy