“Decaf is an abomination, and serving it to someone should be considered a human rights violation,” — Marko Kloos Copy Share Image
When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom… — Rose O'Neal Greenhow Copy Share Image
The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be… — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The spread of democracy, the new foundation of the rule of law, and the creation of fledgling representative governments that honor and… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
My family’s said to me from the beginning, ‘People are always going to tell you to pick what you want to be… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
“Corruption is usually classified as a humanitarian aid problem, to be handled by donor agencies, not mainstreamed into overall foreign and defense… — Sarah Chayes Copy Share Image
Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system. — Asma Jahangir 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 United States, under President Trump, is abdicating an important moral obligation to all democracies by seeming to shrug off the most… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort,… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“One would hope that if the world woke up to such a reality, it would swiftly acknowledge and respond to the disaster—but… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation. — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
“THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they… — Peter Munk Copy Share Image
