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Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. — Hillary Clinton
A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not… — Hillary Clinton
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. — Kofi Annan
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion… — Queen Noor of Jordan
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. — Ayn Rand
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront… — Ajahn Brahm
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the… — Joichi Ito
We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights -… — Terence McKenna
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights. — Dick Gregory
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to… — Malcolm X
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was… — Emmeline Pankhurst
There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights. — Irene Khan
Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of… — Sadako Ogata
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for… — U Thant
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and… — Marian Wright Edelman
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because,… — Vaclav Havel
Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why… — Hillary Clinton
When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order. — James A. Baldwin
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those… — John F. Kennedy
This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay rights are human… — Macklemore
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or… — Margaret Atwood
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart… — Carl Sagan
Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a… — George Washington

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