Human Rights Quotes

• Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Recognition
  • Bondage
  • Emancipation

• What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • God
  • Human Rights
  • Violation

• It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Human Rights
  • Women's Rights

• I think there can be a collective leadership. Maybe some symbolize the struggle [for human's rights] a little more than others, but I think it's absolutely necessary for the leadership to be united in order to make the revolution effective.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Leadership
  • Revolution
  • Human Rights

• No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Practice
  • Human Rights
  • Tradition trumps

• It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power that extend the paternalistic bias of their work in new ways.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Power
  • Ways
  • Human Rights

• There are people who have been touched by, let’s call it for the sake of argument, magic to the point where they’re no longer entirely people even under human rights legislation. Nightingale calls them the fae but that’s a catch-all term like the way the Greeks used the word “barbarian” or the Daily Mail uses “Europe.”

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Magic
  • Legislation
  • Greeks

• Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... are looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Guy
  • Human Rights
  • Atomic weapons

• Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Violence

• America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • America
  • Human Rights

• On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness of government, on strengthening individual liberties and local levels of government, I consider myself a conservative. And I don't see that the two attitudes are incompatible.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Human Rights
  • Civil Rights
  • Environmental quality

• Often Americans have heard Donald Trump be very hard on China. But that's not how it's heard over there. In China, his message is being interpreted as the sound of an exhausted America, an America that is seeking to withdraw from its commitments to NATO, to holding up, for instance, human rights around the world.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Americans
  • Message
  • NATO

• Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Peace
  • Foundation
  • Serenity

• All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Voice
  • Women's Rights
  • Elevation

• No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Freedom
  • Authority
  • Human Rights

• The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year I was in office... second year, 1979, 51,000 came out of the Soviet Union. And every one of the human rights heroes - I'll use the word - who have come out of the Soviet Union, have said it was a turning point in their lives, and not only in the Soviet Union but also in places like Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland they saw this human rights policy of mine as being a great boost to the present democracy and freedom that they enjoy.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Human Rights
  • Jew
  • Soviet Union

• You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

  

  Elizabeth Evatt
  • Light
  • Human Rights
  • Embracing

• Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Community
  • Humanity
  • Human Rights

• A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Human Rights
  • Iran
  • Nuclear Weapons

• All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Dignity
  • Human Rights

• We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • People
  • Government
  • Human Rights

• Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Freedom
  • Human Rights
  • Societies

• I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Earth
  • Human Rights
  • US ambassador

• The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • China
  • Human Rights
  • Pronouncements

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