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“In Fleeced I explained how we could use human rights legislation to scupper the plans of our corrupt wasteful leaders. The Human Rights Act…

— David Craig

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

— Amal Clooney

The key to understanding the impact of the Human Rights Act in the U.K. is to appreciate that civil liberties and human rights are…

— Keir Starmer

Thousands of people's lives improved in this country through human rights laws. Individual people taking on the all-powerful state and winning. You'd think a…

— Sadiq Khan

We need to scrap the Human Rights Act and need a balance between rights and responsibilities.

— Chris Grayling

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

— Lynn Hunt

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

— Johann Lamont

While scrapping the HRA would severely curtail people's ability to seek legal redress in U.K. courts for violations of their fundamental rights, the Tories'…

— Emily Thornberry

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be…

— Noam Chomsky

“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

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

— Anonymous