“Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course… — Jeremy Corbyn 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
When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty."… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights. — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
“There is surely no reason for Western civilization to have guilt trips laid on it by champions of cultures based on despotism,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that… — Barack Obama 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
Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND THANK EVERYONE... WHO TRIES... TO BRING SMILE BACK... TO THIS WOMAN” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
“I will follow anyone and tell everyone my message because it is urgent: Please humanity Protect Yazidis.” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
A lot of the countries of Latin America, they may not agree on everything, from how to run your economy to human… — Margaret Warner Copy Share Image
Does John Kerry have to give them [Iran] every little thing? You'll pass some sanctions for human rights and missiles, and I'll… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Hostility to the Human Rights Act has been present in sections of the Conservative Party since its enactment, and this has grown… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
“Illegal aliens are often preferred, but poor recent immigrants who do not speak English are also desirable employees. By the standards of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western.… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“Food, racism, power, and justice are linked. What I’m trying to do is dismantle culinary nutritional imperialism and gastronomic white supremacy with… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Even what may have seemed, in retrospect, like minor quibbles—over the particular wording of sharia clauses, for example—reflected fundamental divides over the… — Shadi Hamid 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
“In a democratic society, presumably, the public business is carried on in conversation with the actual values of people who are the… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image