The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Human rights start with the freedom of equal income and educational opportunity. The deep-rooted inequalities like gender, colour, race and religion discriminations… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I don't really mind it when Trudeau calls himself a feminist because, you know, he did the half-female cabinet; that's something to… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
We are a million miles from the Tories. While we promote international co-operation and human rights abroad, they pull up the drawbridge. — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Human rights are being told all over the world, but there is no state where the economical freedom is being told. Economical… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever. — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Big global players like China need to do a better job of respecting human rights. — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
“The forces at work in healthy party politics are centripetal; they encourage factions and interests to come together to work out common… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Humans are born with human rights. Those human rights are inherent—” — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had… — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign they`re not really the establishment. I can`t obviously speak for Senator Bernie Sanders or about Planned… — Robert Reich 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
