Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm very careful not to isolate Israel on this but to make this part of a transformed foreign policy where we apply… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is, by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
China-led globalization in some ways worries me because they are not concerned about human rights, labor rights. They probably aren't even really… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are… — Emma Sulkowicz Copy Share Image
The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World… — David Souter Copy Share Image
“It is almost universally agreed upon by all autistics that forced sterilization is a violation of both reproductive rights, and human rights,… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
Since my election to Congress, I've always been interested in human rights. I really do believe that's America's strength. Yes, we have… — Ben Cardin Copy Share Image
“Everything is PR” has become the favorite phrase of the new Russia; my Moscow peers are filled with a sense that they… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“The truth is I don't give a damn why anyone has an abortion. I believe unconditionally in the right of people with… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“This week I was watching the Rachel Maddow Show (you'd love her: she's funny and brilliant and just happens to be a… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
“Even what may have seemed, in retrospect, like minor quibbles—over the particular wording of sharia clauses, for example—reflected fundamental divides over the… — Shadi Hamid Copy Share Image
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights, and that women… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
The sanctions have been a key element in making sure that those who have violated human rights and are guilty of corruption… — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
“Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories… — Daoud Hari Copy Share Image
“It's illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you're the government. It's illegal to take someone's liberty, unless you're the government.… — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“In a way, this judgment has taken forward the jurisprudential strategy in Vishaka of reading into our constitutional law the global concepts… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The way we need to view aid is as a fulfillment of rights, and Mexico, as other countries around the world, have… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“fact, by any reasonable standard, global religious repression constitutes a human rights catastrophe. As noted earlier, the nonpartisan Pew Research Center concluded… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or… — H. V. Evatt Copy Share Image
“[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation… — United Nations Copy Share Image
Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
If we want to avoid a clash of cultures - and the jury is still out on whether we can - we'll… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
In the struggle for the rights of the poor in Central America and other places where globalization is bringing its negative effects,… — Thomas Gumbleton Copy Share Image
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