The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I have a prominent platform and I want to use it to promote respect for human rights, democracy, and personal freedom. For… — Enes Kanter Copy Share Image
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial. — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
Freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law... are universal values of the human spirit. — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing. — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
The United States, whenever it comes to any region in the world where there are tensions, asks for people to observe the… — Morgan Ortagus Copy Share Image
In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty… — John McCain Copy Share Image
American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish… — Hark-Joon Lee Copy Share Image
Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
“itself as the “natural” advocate of democracy and human rights against the threat of totalitarianism—as if it were not the case that… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I work with 15 organisations that deal with issues ranging from environment protection and wildlife conservation to human rights, and women's and… — Amala Akkineni 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 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
“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
“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
“Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia prohibit inmates from voting while incarcerated for a felony offense. Only two states - Maine… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“I don't think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get… — Malaak Shabazz Copy Share Image
“The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Religious freedom is one of the most fundamental of human rights because religious freedom comes from the dignity of the human being… — Suharto Copy Share Image
I've known Mayim Bialik for years, not just from her hit TV shows but as a caring, devout mother and dedicated human… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. — Joely Richardson Copy Share Image
I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“A hundred years hence, our belief in democracy and human rights might look equally incomprehensible to our descendants. Dreamtime” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion. — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty. — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
