“There’s the claim that the only progress made is in posing problems that scientists can answer. That philosophy never has the means… — Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Copy Share Image
“But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I think that it's very important to have the United States' engagement in many situations we have around the world, be it… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
“With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One… — Elaine Bernard Copy Share Image
The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“I have never forgotten these visitors, or ceased to marvel at them, at how they have gone on from strength to strength,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
We should condemn as unjust a global economic order that leads to ever-increasing economic disparities - provided this effect is foreseeable and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
In Burma, we are being told by so-called experts and some governments that we must be patient and that there can be… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones.… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
In opposing we always talk about freedom in the Western world, Muslims always talk about justice. Very often we mean the same… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
“It is not that difficult to understand and differentiate between our said rights and our assumption that we solely own them. (...)… — Claudys Kantara Copy Share Image
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“In discussing this Romanian bloodletting with Simon Wolf, Grant declared that “respect for human rights” was the “first duty” of any head… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The radical Islamic movement has availed itself of the PC mentality to convince good-hearted people around the world that the Jews, Israel,… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
Human beings did not have rights. Human beings created, from nothing, the domain of human rights. They called it up. They languaged… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Yes, I am very unhappy, extremely anguished at human rights violations against Kashmiris in India or against Rohingyas in Burma or, for… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
“A pompous, arrogant, narcissistic intellectual came up to me at a conference and said rather boastfully. "You must feel really good about… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“I reiterate my dedication to advocating for effective preventive strategies to end gun violence once and for all. In the face of the… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
“The FfP uses twelve indicators to measure state failure, and Egypt scored a stellar nine out of ten in criminalization or delegitimization… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Even when the 13th Amendment was passed to abolish slavery with an exception of servitude as a penalty for criminal conviction, the… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
Men realize that they have work to do, to pull up women and take ownership on where we are as a society,… — Julie Smolyansky Copy Share Image
“It is not just a human rights argument, it is the Warren Buffett argument and the Christine Lagarde argument: Countries that want… — Jenny Nordberg Copy Share Image
Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human… — Phyllis Bennis Copy Share Image
The science is my passion, the policy work my social duty. I think there's no other issue in the world that causes… — Amanda Feilding Copy Share Image
For years, Taiwan has been dominated politically by a single party, the Kuomintang. People now want the place to be more democratic.… — Tsai Ing-wen Copy Share Image
It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Throughout history there have been populations that have lived in desperation, and none of them have resorted to the intentional targeting and… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to homeso close and so small that they cannot be… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
“While there remains such an idea as the right of each State to control its own local affairs,—an idea, by the way,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
