Human Rights Quotes

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

Without peace, there is little hope for human rights

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal. By "liberal," I mean, basically, support for the rule of law, support for human rights, support for peace; and on all those counts - rule of law, human rights, peace - Israel's record has become indefensible.

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

I will always work for human rights for all people.

Humanitarian assistance and exchanges are still allowed, even under the sanctions regime on North Korea. Therefore, in parallel with sanctions and pressure, we must also employ humanitarian assistance. The meeting of separated families is also a measure to ensure human rights.

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

The death penalty experiment has failed.

I have gotten the sense that developments when it comes to human rights are very alarming. In the long term, it needs to be in our interest to have a Turkey in which human rights are respected. Anything else would mean destabilization right on our border. If we look away, the developments in Turkey will constantly get worse.

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

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

Right now, American government has stepped back from offering any kinds of protection for human rights and public health. And the fossil fuel industry thinks that they have just absolute free rein to go for it. The one thing in the way is public opposition. It's civil society. It's activism.

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.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations. I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

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

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life.

Victims should come first.

The first thing to say is that the ordinary criminal law in this country, the Human Rights Act, the Children's Act, all of the laws of the country take precedence, but what I'm also saying is that within the context of a secular country, which Britain now kind of is, or at least a country which purports to be relatively equal between religions, there should be some scope for allowing faith communities to govern themselves - subject to it being consensual and subject to everyone's human rights being observed.

It is clear that Germany needs a foreign policy in which we jointly define European interests. Thus far, we have often defined European values, but we have been much too weak in defining mutual interests. To preempt any possible misunderstandings: We cannot give short shrift to our values of freedom, democracy and human rights.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.

I think the issue that concerns us is certainly regaining stability, but issues of human rights are an integral part of our reform policies, of our new constitution.

We are calling on countries that supply weapons to comply with certain restrictions: not to sell weapons to human rights abusers, not to sell them to governments or groups carrying out aggression against states, not to make weapons sales that could disrupt security or development in the receiving region. These are in many ways common sense principles, but sadly, there seems to be very little common sense in the international arms trade.

The U.S. has represented throughout its history a commitment to human rights and the law - shining a light on what happened at Abu Ghraib exposes our departure from this long-term commitment. It does not, however, excuse the atrocities carried about by Saddam Hussein and others.

The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs on the battlefield. Sometimes naïveté belongs not to the human rights activists but to the politicians.

Human rights takes history out of justice.

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

It is all of our jobs to make sure that women's rights are human rights, and that they do have a place at the table, and we all push toward equality. The leadership numbers for women in business really haven't changed since I began as CEO. There are only 21 female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies, there is only 17 to 19 percent of female representatives in Congress, there are only eight female governors.

Gorsuch, who is a U.S. Supreme Court nominee in the United States, said the real test of law is when a government can lose in its own courts and still respect the order. And I think Canadian need to ask is why would Canada, if it's doing everything right, why wouldn't you want to be watched? If they are contesting the fact that their own courts don't have jurisdiction over the government's human rights violations, then our next step is to go to federal court and find the federal government that can come to court and we will do that.

The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, if you look at its website, it basically deals with commercial disputes, it's not allowed to deal with matters involving children, it's not allowed to deal with criminal matters, it's subject to judicial review, it's subject to the Human Rights Act, it's subject to the Children's Act, and it's completely proper and right that it should be subject to all those things.

We expect Germany to push more strongly for democracy and human rights in Turkey.