Top 1200 Violation Of Human Rights Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Women should have the same rights and respect and paychecks and everything, you know, they're human beings.

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to perfect our union at home while standing as a beacon of hope to the world. Today, that principle is embodied in agreements Americans helped forge - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and treaties against torture and genocide - and it unites us with people from every country and culture.

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

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

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

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

Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like any other rights. There are limits on your free speech and on your right to privacy. But he also made another nuanced Constitutional argument, that the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment must be balanced alongside the others rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

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

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are all rights to which all human beings are entitled, whether they choose to exercise them in a city square or an Internet chat room. And just as we have worked together since the last century to secure these rights in the material world, we must work together in this century to secure them in cyberspace.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

In my human-rights work, perhaps the most important thing is gaining the trust of the victims.

For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well.

The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. I don’t find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason.

Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights and workers rights.

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect the rights in the Constitution, have to protect the requirement that the executive and the legislature not simply exercise raw power but adhere to standards of reasonableness and constitutionality.

Free women and men everywhere must wage an incessant campaign so that these human values become a generally recognized and practised reality. We must regretfully admit that in various parts of the world this is not yet the case. Without those values and human rights the real peace of which we dream is jeopardized.

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.

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.

We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

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

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

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

It's the most ludicrous thing when people protest equal rights of other human beings.

The Human Rights Act is a really important constitutional document, it isn't just a villain's charter.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

I do think that every super power on the globe has a very poor record on human rights.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental. In accord with this usage, those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of human beings, become "anti-globalist."

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings. At issue was the fundamental question of whether men's rights were God-given or whether these rights were to be dispensed by governments to their subjects. This document proclaimed that all men have certain inalienable rights. In other words, these rights came from God.

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

My own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect.

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

We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights.

I believe in civil rights. Every man is born equal and should be treated as human.

The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.

Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.

You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

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

We need to fight for a new human rights movement that recognizes and values black life.

We don't see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.

I have long been an advocate for peace and human rights in Canada and around the globe.

...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.

In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-to-day: work, life. But people are sensitive to national rights.

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

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