Hillary Clinton Quotes About Human Rights

• Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Politics, Speak

  Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States. Executive Office of the President (1995). “Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton: United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, September 5-6, 1995, China”

• If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work so hard and defend it and fight for it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Rights, Would Be

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Commitment, Rights

• Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life, Rights, Political Equality

  Address to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, delivered 12 March 2010, United Nations, New York

• A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Iran, Nuclear

• Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Gay, Rights

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

• 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

  Country, Rights, Minorities

• Gay rights are human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gay, Rights, Humans

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

• It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Lgbt, Human Experience

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

• It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Humans, Acceptable

  1995 Addressing the 4th World Conference on Women. Reported in the NewYork Times, 6 Sep.

• It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gay, Violation Of Human Rights, Government

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

• We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Opportunity, Reality

• In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to start his businesses. In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women's rights are human rights. He insulted a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, called her an eating machine.

  Hillary Clinton

  Father, School, Rights

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Violation Of Human Rights, Lgbt, Justified

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

• There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Leadership, Wisdom, Past

  "Hillary Clinton preaches 'social gospel' not politics in latest speech". Hillary Clinton's address to a group of over 7,000 women about spiritual and social issues at United Methodist Women's Assembly in Kentucky, www.theglobaldispatch.com. April 28, 2014.

• Does John Kerry have to give them [Iran] every little thing? You'll pass some sanctions for human rights and missiles, and I'll grudgingly sign on.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Iran, Giving

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Practice, Lgbt

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

• You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Leadership, Jobs, Latin

  "Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. August 10, 2014.

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, People, Lgbt

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

• Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Years, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Gay, Rights

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

• I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Rights, Wife

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “Living History”, p.14, Hachette UK

• I was somewhat confused when senator [Bernie] Sanders said, well, you know, Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign, they`re part of the establishment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Confused, Rights, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Progress, Humans

• Gay rights and human rights are one and the same.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gay, Rights, Lgbt

  "Hillary Clinton's global legacy on gay rights" by Frida Ghitis, www.cnn.com. February 7, 2013.

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