Complaints Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform,…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries…

— Kofi Annan

We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own…

— Jimmy Carter

“Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free. How can one not be sensitive to their plight? Human…

— Elie Wiesel

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you…

— Wangari Maathai

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

— Anna Lindh

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

In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals…

— Albert Einstein

If human rights are an attribute of being human, then we must consider the fact that tens of millions of displaced people around the…

— Masha Gessen

That term, 'human rights', makes me ill.Human rights are only for 'humans', therefore for the West. And for the rest of the Planet: there,…

— Andre Vltchek

I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to…

— Mary Robinson

Where there are breaches of human rights, you need to speak out about it, no matter where it is.

— Emily Thornberry