Abnormal Quote by Breyten Breytenbach

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

— Pope Francis

“Human rights are difficult to pin down because their definition, indeed their very existence, depends on emotions as much as on reason.”

— Lynn Hunt

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

— Ai Weiwei

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

— Hillary Clinton

Human rights only have meaning if they are universal.

— Keir Starmer

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that so many…

— Paul Polman

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

— Noam Chomsky

A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.

— Tom Stoppard

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior…

— Daisaku Ikeda