Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality - doing so also serves our national… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human… — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
“I firmly believe that everyone should be free to pursue their desires as long as it does not harm others or society.” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
“Without a criterion enabling us to distinguish genuine human rights from the many impostors we will never be sure that our legal… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Who talks about the real human rights violations, those committed by the West? Europeans and North Americans have already butchered hundreds of… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
An important documentary that sheds light on one of the most terrifying realities in the U.S. today—the commercial sexual exploitation of young… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
My running mate, Ajamu Baraka, was out camping out with the homeless in Baltimore . We were both recently at the Standing… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“You are preaching black conscious now ? Where was your black conscious, when you raped and murdered another black person. Where was… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
“Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to… — Siddharth Kara Copy Share Image
“How do we pick and choose where to get involved? Canada and other peacekeeping nations have become accustomed to acting if, and… — Romeo Dallaire Copy Share Image
When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when… — Hillel Neuer Copy Share Image
“john stuart mill knew several languages, advanced math and read many great books' before he was ten years old. his father taught… — Megan Boyle Copy Share Image
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment -… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
And when 9/11 came, that was open season to violate human rights. And that's how I was kidnapped. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
I have long been an advocate for peace and human rights in Canada and around the globe. — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I've always been passionate about human rights in general. I think anyone who knows me can attest to that. — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right? — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
To ask for 'our rights' is our right... the state may or may not accede to our demands... but our right to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
