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
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The cases involving the question of whether U.S. courts should be open to claims of international human rights violations brought by foreign… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records for violations of national… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton talks constantly about her fears that families will be separated, but she's not talking about the American families who have… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
As Muslims, our interests are our values. In any society, be it in Western or Muslim-majority countries, our duty is that of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administration would take the gold, world-records for violations of… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I believe that with the complete formation of the global Zionist network, they have seized control of the fate of the European… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of… — John Brown Copy Share Image