Human Rights Quotes

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

It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

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

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.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

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.

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

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

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

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.

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

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

We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You can't have occupation and human rights.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.

There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.

The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

I do not support individual countries taking military action against another country because of its human rights record, or subsequently justifying taking such action on human rights grounds.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights.