Abuse Quote by Samantha Power

Human rights takes history out of justice.

— Arundhati Roy

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights…

— Matt Taibbi

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

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from…

— Ali Khamenei

Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions of human…

— Mary Robinson

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

— Buzz Aldrin

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

— Pope Francis

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy.…

— Felix Frankfurter

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

— Anna Lindh

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