Human Rights Quotes - Page 19

• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  Hans Kung

  Rights, Essence, Ethics

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• I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

  Bianca Jagger

  Rights, Years, Lasts

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• The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Rights, Government, Yardsticks

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• There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

  Dick Durbin

  Rights, Hair, Law

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

  Ali Khamenei

  Teaching, Islamic, Rights

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• We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

  Jan Egeland

  Rights, People, Atrocities

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

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Rights, Strive, Declaration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

  Elton Gallegly

  Rights, Law, People

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• To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

  Gerrit Smith

  Rights, Charter, Humans

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

  Chen Shui-bian

  Rights, Issues, Prejudice

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• The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

  Stjepan Mesic

  Rights, Fundamentals, Terrorism

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• When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

  Rory Bremner

  Rights, Liberty, Would Be

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• The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

  Ali Khamenei

  Rights, Issues, Fundamentals

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• Human rights groups around the world, certainly sees that Saddam Hussein makes Slobodan Milosevic, who is a war criminal, look like a street thug. I mean, Saddam Hussein wrote the book on Human rights violations.

  Curt Weldon

  Book, Rights, Hussein

  "CNN Live Sunday", www.cnn.com. February 1, 2004.

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• Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

  Jane Mayer

  Rights, Use, Records

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Religious, Rights, Average

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

  Rob Bishop

  Fighting, Rights, Careers

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• This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

  Ernie Fletcher

  Rights, America, Principles

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• There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

  Judith Light

  Fighting, Rights, Finding The One

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• Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

  Richard Perle

  Rights, Government, Tyrants

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.233, Random House

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• Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Rights, Being Human, Equal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

  Paul Farmer

  Rights, Way, Humans

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• Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Wall, Rights, World

  "Kofi Annan and U.N. Accept 2001 Nobel Peace Prize", www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2001.

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• The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.

  Bernard Lown

  Health, Order, Rights

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• The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

  Evo Morales

  Health, Reality, Worst Enemy

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