Family Quote by Emily Thornberry

Patients who have suffered appalling medical negligence, abused children ignored by social services, mistreated residents of care homes - they have all been given…

— Emily Thornberry

One of the problems that we have in the human rights community is that special interests often forget the interests of other victims, and…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

— Robert C. Maynard

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

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

— Ian Mckellen

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.

— Miroslav Lajcak

Human rights only have meaning if they are universal.

— Keir Starmer

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.

— Trevor Phillips

Do we still have the right to be more than victims?

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

— Amal Clooney

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

— Ai Weiwei