Human Rights Quotes

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

Human, Humanity, Challenge

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.
Hillary Clinton

Women, Human, Country

Gay rights are human rights.
Hillary Clinton

Gay, Human, Rights

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King

Freedom, Human, Tolerance

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
Ellen DeGeneres

Care, Political, Human

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
Hillary Clinton

Women, Human, Rights

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
William Hague

Freedom, Mind, Human

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter

Human, Soul, Sense

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
Desmond Tutu

God, Children, Evil

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter

Human, Real, America

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
Stephen Harper

Society, Human, Find

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Life, Struggle, Political

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

Women, Freedom, Human

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Wangari Maathai

Peace, Today, Human

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.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Integrity, Human, Often

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Time, Human, Rights

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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

Work, Human, Give

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.
Jimmy Carter

Health, Mother, Human

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.
Jimmy Carter

Peace, Freedom, Human

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
Vladimir Putin

Nothing, Human, Democracy

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
Madeleine Albright

Human, Honest, American

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Shirin Ebadi

Religion, Human, Rights

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

Freedom, Fear, Human

It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
Daisaku Ikeda

Education, Truth, School

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
Emma Thompson

Women, Food, Human

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
Bono

Equality, Live, Human

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
Garrett Hardin

Family, Society, Human

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.
Vivienne Westwood

Fight, Human, Used

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Hope, Human, Champion

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