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We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home. — Jimmy Carter

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law. — Hu Jintao

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. — Charlotte Bunch

In Actual
Human Rights are
"caring" for Humans left on the planet — Haider Ali

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all. — Irene Khan

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings. — Barack Obama

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse. — Lynn Nottage

For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination. — Asa Don Brown

The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion. — Augusto Pinochet

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics. — Rebecca MacKinnon

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

THE SADNESS IN OUR HEARTS SEEMS ENDLESS — Widad Akreyi

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights. — Gelila Bekele

Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them. — Stephen Kinzer

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights. — Ronald Reagan

The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion! — Widad Akreyi

I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God. — Rick Perry

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies. — John Prendergast

If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth. — Mos Def

Prejudice is poison in the veins of the world. — Leta B.

The Corrupt Officer has a Price and the Honest Officer has Integrity — Gary York

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND TELL EVERYONE
ABOUT ...
THE REAL WAR ON WOMEN
ON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN — Widad Akreyi

There cannot be any concessions on the matter of human rights or the criteria for visa liberalisation. — Francois Hollande

The simple truth is that every human being should be born with basic human rights without suffering from discrimination. — Leta B.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature. — Susan Dorothea White

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights. — Judith Light

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it. — Theresa May

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being. — Desmond Tutu

If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses. — Leta B.

The right to life is the first among human rights. — Pope Francis

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

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND THANK EVERYONE
WHO TRIES TO MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS — Widad Akreyi

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal. — Hillary Clinton

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews. — Golda Meir

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. — Joely Richardson

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. — Jimmy Carter

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

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights. — David Harvey

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul? — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights. — Samuel P. Huntington

The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time. — Desmond Tutu

Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear. — Steve Corbett

The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights. — Julia Ormond

Transnational Corporations must be legally accountable for the negative human rights impacts of their activities. — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt. — Mohamed ElBaradei

All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal. — Dalai Lama

WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS ...
IN THE TERROR FOREST!
WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT! — Widad Akreyi

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. — Tom Stoppard

I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council. — Gary Weiss

Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us! — Joe Sacco

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. — Dag Hammarskjold

The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free. — Michel Templet

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear. — Ghassan Kanafani

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world. — Ken Livingstone

Gay rights and human rights are ... one and the same. — Hillary Clinton

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. — William Bennett

It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation. — P. J. O'Rourke

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars.
You can't take it seriously. — Eqbal Ahmad

We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights. — Dan Quayle

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy. — Akbar Ganji

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women ... Human rights? They couldn't care less! — Isabel Allende

Labor law violations are alive and well in the USA. — Steven Magee

Subjecting other living things to pain, suffering, and death is the biggest fault in the human race — Zoe Rosenberg

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people. — Evan Bayh

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people. — Aung San Suu Kyi

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. — Ricky Martin

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. — Vladimir Putin

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more. — John Ortberg

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent. — Mahnaz Afkhami

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution. — Chen Shui-bian

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner. — Elliott Abrams

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. — Robert Breault

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights. — Liu Xiaobo

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents. — Andrew Young

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy. — J.M. Coetzee

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. — Imelda Marcos

Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females! — Widad Akreyi

The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights. — Vladimir Sorokin

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. — William Lloyd Garrison

Electing Sudan to the U.N. body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter. — Hillel Neuer

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not. — Robert Mugabe

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me. — Henry A. Kissinger

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. — Breyten Breytenbach

It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world! — Widad Akreyi

How is the black man going to get 'civil rights' before he first wins his human rights? — Malcolm X

Human rights; they are in the hands of mankind and nowhere else. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

We are the children of one creator.
We are different in some ways. Yet, we are equal. — Ellen J. Barrier

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. — Liu Xiaobo

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations. — Curt Weldon

The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing. — Ward Churchill

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable. — Barbara Mikulski

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century. — Mary Robinson

If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help. — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain. — Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. — Joichi Ito