Human Rights Quotes

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.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights.

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

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

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

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

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.

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

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.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

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.

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.

An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

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

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

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

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

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

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

I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.

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.

The basis of human rights is happy life. Everyone wants to lead a happy life for which we need to have a holistic approach.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.

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

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

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

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.