Human Rights Quotes - Page 12

• This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation.

  Macklemore

  Gay, Moon, Men

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• 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.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Rights, Expression

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• If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

  Carl Sagan

  Smart, Animal, Rights

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.126, Ballantine Books

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• Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

  George Washington

  Rights, Government, Long

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• Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Rights, Credit, Poverty

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Home, Rights, Community

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Rights, Practice

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• The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.

  Pope John Paul II

  Rights, Abortion, Priorities

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• The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life. Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights-for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.

  Pope John Paul II

  Determination, Home, Reflection

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• The right to life is the first among human rights.

  Pope Francis

  Rights, Pro Life, Abortion

  "10 must-read quotations from Pope Francis: portrait of a forceful thinker". www.lifesitenews.com. March 15, 2013.

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• When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully to Africa and Latin America and the entire Islamic world. The peoples of the Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities as people in every nation. And their governments should listen to their hopes.

  George W. Bush

  Latin, Inspiration, Islamic

  Transcript of President Bush's commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2002.

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• History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish power against forces fighting to protect and advance human rights. Those genuinely serving humanity always ultimately emerge triumphant. It is under their standards that the [Western] allies choose to throw in their lot for humanity's defense.

  Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

  Selfish, Struggle, Fighting

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• We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

  Bob Menendez

  Rights, Mass Destruction, Support

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• I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

  Helen Suzman

  Inspirational, Fighting, Opportunity

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• It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that a foreign policy that is morally right protects human rights everywhere.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Rights, Risk, Moral

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• Victims should come first.

  Maria Julia Hernandez

  Firsts, Victim, Should

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• The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.

  Maria Julia Hernandez

  Rights, People, Terrible

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• The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Party, Sunshine, Rights

  1948 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 14 July 1948, Philadelphia, PA

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• And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Jobs, Work, Home

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• There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Rights, Compromise, Humans

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• There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

  Bianca Jagger

  Rights, Our World, Law

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• No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Abuse, Causes

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• Human security comes only with human rights and the rule of law. Human rights are the basis for creating strong and accountable states without which there can be no political stability or social progress.

  Irene Khan

  Strong, Rights, Law

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• There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Names, Abuse

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• We are opposing the exploitation of man by man, similarly we must oppose the exploitation of peoples by other peoples ... but today this is no longer enough ... we have to assist the peoples fighting for their independence to develop their economies, to increase their standard of living

  Bruno Kreisky

  Fighting, Men, Independence

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