Human Rights Quotes

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.

We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.

[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he is out now with a wonderful new text; a memoir, in fact.

All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

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.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

It is imperative to use forceful measures to force the regime to respect human rights.

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

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

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

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

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

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent

The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.