So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impassable with our… — James Baldwin 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 biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
To me and to a number of other activists from the U.S., we believe that the human rights movement has to evolve… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“If it's okay to enrich ourselves by denying foreigners the right to earn a living, why shouldn't we enrich ourselves by invading… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Civil Sanity (Sonnet 1631) You know what the problem is! We question love more than we question hate. We question humility more… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that… — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned - well, everywhere there's… — Haile Selassie I Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Business must go on reiterating its absolute commitment to embedding human rights in all it does, driving industry change through collaboration with… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to… — Martin Almada Copy Share Image
I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism… — Yelena Bonner Copy Share Image
Strip away the factual misinformation repeatedly peddled about the Human Rights Act and almost everyone acknowledges that it works well in practice.… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
And occasionally some of the - some of the nations that you will have to - that will be partners in this… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
Naming a street in Washington, D.C., after Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy advocate and journalist standing up for human rights in Hong Kong,… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage…w e… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
Many American pundits and foreign policy experts love to depict themselves as crusaders for human rights, but it almost always takes the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights supports youth reentry projects because my father cared deeply about children and young people involved in the… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
The U.S. has represented throughout its history a commitment to human rights and the law - shining a light on what happened… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
I think it's so important to think about the basic human rights of others and to use our collective voices, minds and… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person,… — Maria Julia Hernandez Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
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