Hillary Clinton Quotes

Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

Hillary Clinton

• Human Rights
• Civil Rights
• Women's Rights

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• I am passionate about human rights.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Passionate

• Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Expectation

• I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Money
  • Human Rights

• Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

  

  Major Owens
  • Government
  • Civil Rights

• I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Time
  • Think
  • Civil Rights

• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Law

• I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Prison
  • Human Rights

• The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• 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
  • Up
  • Find
  • Rights

• I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Apology
  • Civil Rights

• It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Leaders
  • Human Rights

• I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could do things that no civil rights march ever did.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Hand
  • Situation
  • March

• The situation is very serious, there has been a clear abuse of human rights, a lack of democracy and a lack of openness.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Democracy
  • Serious
  • Situation

• At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Heart
  • America
  • Soul

• What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk had approached the F.B.I. regarding an article that he and Haley were writing together for The Saturday Evening Post, and the F.B.I. had an interest in castigating the Nation of Islam, and isolating it from the mainstream of Negro civil rights activity.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Interest

• The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Women
  • Contribution
  • Absolute

• Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Truth
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

  

  Akbar Ganji
  • Democracy
  • Struggle
  • Human Rights

• What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Doing
  • Debt
  • Rapture

• There is no such thing as recreational drug use.

  

  Alan I. Leshner
  • Drug
  • Use
  • Recreational

• Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Human Rights
  • Civil Rights
  • Women's Rights