Human Rights Quotes

• I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Money
  • Done
  • Problem

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Human Rights
  • Women's Rights
  • Minority rights

• The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must be anchored in a different place, and in a different way, than has been the case so far. If it is to be more than just a slogan mocked by half the world, it cannot be expressed in the language of a departing era, and it must not be mere froth floating on the subsiding waters of faith in a purely scientific relationship to the world.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Different
  • Faith

• With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Human Rights

• Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Human Rights
  • Uniform
  • Bullets

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

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • World
  • Free
  • Regimes

• There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Great
  • Balance
  • Dilemma

• Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.

  

  Ajahn Brahm
  • Culture
  • Freedom
  • Protect

• Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

  

  Stephen Harper
  • Society
  • Human Rights
  • Totalitarianism

• I think one of the reasons that Arch Enemy gels so well as people and musically is because we all share very similar values when it comes to human rights, animal rights... even politics, religion.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Values

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

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Help
  • Human Rights
  • North Koreans

• I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates the most basic of human rights... It's a difficult dilemma.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Human Rights
  • Village

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

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Truth
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• If the Olympics fail, human rights will suffer. The government would stop paying any attention to the rest of the world. I personally think: we want the Games and we want human rights to be respected.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • World
  • Stop
  • Attention

• We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.

  

  Zainab al-Khawaja
  • Freedom
  • Silent
  • Protest

• 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

• Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Direction
  • Citizen
  • Secure

• It is lawlessness of Moscow's and Russian authorities - what is happening here is a complete lawlessness, we are just trying to hold a peaceful human rights action.

  

  Nikolay Alexeyev
  • Russian
  • Authorities
  • Lawlessness

• We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Diversity

• We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Democracy
  • Human Rights

• The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • United States
  • Human Rights
  • Criminal Justice

• One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Pandemics

• 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

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