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 FCO must help Turkey reinforce accountable state institutions, while also developing ties far beyond them: the UK needs a deeper and… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
During the debates for mayor, I was continually pressed on my position on the policing procedure known as 'stop and frisk' -… — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
To some, incredibly, Russia has become a human rights leader. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, has succeeded in his asylum application in… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
Owning a gun is your constitutional right, but that doesn't mean you should do it. The constitution also gives you the right… — Guy Code Copy Share Image
In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
To me, America need to clean up their own home before they tell another country about human rights. I'm a primary example.… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
If the Olympics fail, human rights will suffer. The government would stop paying any attention to the rest of the world. I… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
“The whole thing is too abstract, continued Zafar, this business of our lives standing for something else. All we know is that… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
“Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The communist world, it may be noted, has one big myth (which we call an illusion, in the vain hope that our… — Carl Gustav Jung Copy Share Image
The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Let no one doubt, we will defend America's security and the cause of freedom around the world. But we want a president… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We don't supply a hundred billion dollars worth of weapons to the war criminals in Saudi Arabia nor do we supply eight… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The deliberate weakening of the labour movement by the machinations of market fundamentalists, gaining momentum during the periods when Margaret Thatcher led… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't… — Mehcad Brooks Copy Share Image
Because no matter who we are or where we come from, we're all entitled to the basic human rights of clean air… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It's one thing to say you're feminist, but then what does that mean? Not selling arms to a regime that is the… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
“By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
“Snowden’s itinerary does, however, seem to bear the fingerprints of Julian Assange. Assange was often quick to criticise the US and other… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
..I think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall… — Martin Ennals Copy Share Image
We've got to listen to other people's voices, respect them, but keep in mind, and I believe in terms of the things… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“They talk about human rights until the rights include things they personally do not like as alternatives. There needs to be Frank… — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
The industry of political conflict is the biggest industry in Bosnia, and it is still not exhausted. What is needed is to… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views.… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
