Top 1200 Declaration Of Human Rights Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of human liberty, never included and were never intended for us as a people. It is only a question of sheer accident that we happen to be fellow citizens today with the descendants of those who, through their advocacy, laid the foundation for human rights.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights and equal rights are still the great unfinished business of America. The suffering has been disproportionately borne by the weak, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and largely African-Americans, who were forced by poverty, illness, unequal opportunity to stay behind and bear the brunt of the storm's winds and floods. I believe that kind of disparate impact is morally wrong in this, the richest country in the world.

Canada has a stand on human rights in many places, just not when Donald Trump violates them in Latino neighbourhoods.

The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

I try to live tolerance in my own way, which is why, as a politician, one of my key priorities is to stand up for human rights.

Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.

China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

The terrible toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire world is a reminder of the interconnection and interdependence of all of our human rights.

If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.

We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.

'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

The Iranian regime continues to violate the human rights of its own people, targeting political and civil society activists.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

I think that Canadians in general very much understand... that we need to engage in the world and stand up for human rights.

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

My own sense as an American is that we have begun to experience the disadvantages of framing virtually all moral issues in terms of individual rights. American history has consisted of swings back and forth between rights talk on the one hand and talk of duties, responsibilities, and the common good on the other hand. Recent decades have seen a big swing toward rights, and conceived in very individualistic terms, which hasn't always been the case even with rights.

The death penalty is an inhumane punishment that disproportionately violates the human rights of Black, brown, indigenous, and other marginalized people.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.

My children are grown... my husband is an international human rights lawyer and all of his work is outside of Canada. So, I have bags, will travel.

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

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

The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equal and should be afforded the basic human rights that we all deserve.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all.

We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy.

We are a million miles from the Tories. While we promote international co-operation and human rights abroad, they pull up the drawbridge.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

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

My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights.

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!

We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.

The N.B.A. provides a big platform to shed light on the human rights violations in Turkey and gives a voice to the thousands of people persecuted.

It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated.

We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights

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

I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God.

The prospect of an Africa dominated by China means that progress in human rights and democracy in the region will stall and could be reversed.

Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace... One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being... The people owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength.

I'm actually a huge fan of changing every single 'anti-Trump' sentiment to 'pro-human rights' because they are synonymous.