Top 1200 Violation Of Human Rights Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system.

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

Big global players like China need to do a better job of respecting human rights.

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.

Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

In America, I think we just keep adding, and that's our problem. We almost never subtract. We keep adding these boondoggles, and these violations of the basic principles of equal rights - certain people have more rights than others - it's like "Animal Farm." The pig says that we all have equal rights, but some have more rights than others.

We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival and well-being. We are convinced that this negotiation process must not be viewed as a traditional series of governmental trade-offs, but as an urgent international effort to safeguard human lives, homes, rights and livelihoods.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

Any strategy to promote democracy and human rights must have the fight against corruption at its heart.

My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when we go beyond human experience (e.g., the debate on animal consciousness, and by extension animal rights).

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

I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I feel that if I was figuratively dropped on the Earth and there was a political line, I would be just left of center. The difference for me is that conservatives are more interested in property values and rights and free markets, and liberals are more interested in human rights. In the end, there are people who don't fit into the marketplace and are not equipped. I believe the government should step in where the free market fails.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. Those rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights and in our California Constitution. Voters and politicians alike would do well to take a look at the rights we each hold, which must never be chipped away by the whim of the majority.

The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

Japan and Australia share the universal values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights.

America should always stand for human rights and freedom, but not through endless military intervention.

Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.

The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.

Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights, abuses by police and the military, and the subordination of politics to religion - issues like the campaign to expand human freedom by turning highways over to toll-extracting private corporations and the crusade to funnel money from Social Security to Wall Street brokerage firms.

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

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

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

Those who still believe the United Nations is a human rights organization with the best of intentions are kidding themselves.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.

In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

My vision is a Malawi where men and women live in peace and in harmony as equals enjoying their human rights.

All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

We've seen it again and again. From civil rights to women's rights to marriage rights, this country has reinvented itself in the quest to make real the transcendent values that Lincoln proclaimed in his historic address - that all men are created equal in a nation conceived in liberty.

Bolsonaro is a tropical Trump. They have a very common agenda, a very regressive agenda, when it comes to civil rights, social rights, and environmental rights.

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.

Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump.

Tragedy is the violation of love.

Countries often prioritise economic interests over human rights - hence all the kowtowing to China.

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

I believe that our communities can benefit if they know about and participate in the U.N.'s various human rights forums.

The Pirate Party started in Sweden in 2006, and it only had one agenda: to change draconian copyright laws. But it's changed and shifted primarily because the questions of human rights and cyber have become much more relevant. So if you want to place it somewhere on the spectrum, I would say it's a party that has its roots in civilian rights. But we are not like many left parties that want to regulate citizens and create nanny states. We believe that regulation should be on the powerful, not the individuals.

Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

Young people, throughout history, have always been the lifeblood of every movement for civil and human rights.

Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.

The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.