The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private. — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights. — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Our faith in the Trinity puts us under an obligation to struggle at every level, from the strictly personal to the highly… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
I don't want to be treated outside the rule of law. And I don't want people from this part of the world,… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the… — David Wong Copy Share Image
To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
The framework for everything I've done has been human rights. That is about protecting the vulnerable and giving people access to courts… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
“Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The individual rights of many are at stake. The collective rights of many peoples to their culture are also at stake. I… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier Copy Share Image
“1776: A declaration of the Parlement of Paris: The first rule of justice is to conserve for each individual that which belongs… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“- Why should we be feminists? Why not egalitarians? - "Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Slavery! It sounds archaic and perhaps even silly, and this word, too, people dared pronounce only in their hidden thoughts. “Slavery —… — Melānija Vanaga Copy Share Image
“The processes of corporate power do not work in isolation. The economic and legal mechanisms that allow the privatization of the commonwealth,… — George Draffan Copy Share Image
The way in which we can promote peace, is by promoting sustainable management of our resources, equitable distribution of these resources, and… — Wangari Maathai 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
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Let’s stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and… — Susan Dorothea White Copy Share Image
All humans in this world are like brothers and sisters and we should help each other likewise. — Hammody Ali Copy Share Image
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China. — Alex Chiu Copy Share Image
“The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“Only when we prove that international law and the human rights of all mankind are greater than any villain can we vanquish… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING: HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
