We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard. — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
“This is a landmark step in internationalizing our laws by fostering the trend of a globalized human rights regime of shared values.” — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people. — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
America should always stand for human rights and freedom, but not through endless military intervention. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
The U.S. has represented throughout its history a commitment to human rights and the law - shining a light on what happened… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights supports youth reentry projects because my father cared deeply about children and young people involved in the… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage…w e… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
Many American pundits and foreign policy experts love to depict themselves as crusaders for human rights, but it almost always takes the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all drug offenders sent… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
“Oakeshott believed that civil association has been increasingly displaced by enterprise, under pressure from political elites, managers, parties and ideologues. It is… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested… — Vesanto Melina Copy Share Image
“People who are not fully enlightened have no business becoming parents. This contradicts the conventionally accepted notion that people have an inherent… — Daniel Mackler Copy Share Image
“- I didn't seduce her! OK, I didn't know exactly what I was doing. It seemed like fun and then... well, THAT… — Momchil Yoskov Copy Share Image
I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim world for… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
Until the U.N. can defend objective human rights, not subjective ideological bias, it is a scourge to the values it claims to… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The United States should not fund the U.N. Human Rights Council until it stops targeting our closest ally. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
“In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who… — Alex Scarrow Copy Share Image
“The concept of human rights had been invented by people who were thinking only of human beings” — Yōko Tawada Copy Share Image
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
“No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
Every religion curbs women rights to some extent. Some countries acted against religions and put a ban on wearing hijab, which was… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
“The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
I think the issue that concerns us is certainly regaining stability, but issues of human rights are an integral part of our… — Sameh Shoukry Copy Share Image
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for. — Robert C. Maynard Copy Share Image
