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Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.

— Dominic Raab

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

— Ali Khamenei

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda…

— John Yoo

Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al…

— John Yoo

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

— Buzz Aldrin

What I'm trying to bring attention to is that human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first…

— Nikki Haley

Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or…

— Shirin Ebadi

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No…

— Anonymous

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what…

— Anonymous

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are…

— Nikki Haley

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

— Henry A. Kissinger

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

— Charles Sumner