Human Rights Quotes - Page 22

• That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Growing Up, War, Fate

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• Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

  Ali Khamenei

  Country, Rights, Years

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• John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls.

  David Wong

  Clouds, Rights, Blue

  David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.110, Macmillan

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• The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Russia, Rights, Space

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• Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  Evo Morales

  Rights, Israel, Principles

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• The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Rights, Matter, Standards

  The David A. Morse Lecture, www.cfr.org. September 25, 2008.

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• There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Liberty, Cuba

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• On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Rights, Hands

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• And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Country, Responsibility, Mean

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• Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Rights, Iran, Practice

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• If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when more victims than ever were hanged by Iran, women and children in Afghanistan were bombed, whole communities were massacred in South Sudan, 1800 Palestinians were starved and murdered by Assad in Syria, hundreds in Pakistan were killed by jihadist terror attacks, 10,000 Iraqis were killed by terrorists, villagers were slaughtered in Nigeria, but you only cry out for Gaza, then you are not Pro Human Rights, you are only Anti-Israel.

  Hillel Neuer

  Children, Past, Rights

  "Test yourself: Are you pro human rights, or just anti-Israel?". blog.unwatch.org. July 15, 2014.

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• Electing Sudan to the UN body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter.

  Hillel Neuer

  Rights, Body, Shelter

  "UN accuses Sudan's president of genocide; then mulls naming him to Human Rights Council". www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2012.

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• Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

  Gelila Bekele

  School, Rights, Water

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• It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Fighting, Rights, Europe

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• Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.

  Vaclav Havel

  War, Lying, Past

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• Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Rights, Government, Years

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• ...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Rights, Zimbabwe, Groups

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• American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Rights, Law

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• We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Rights, Facts

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• 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

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• It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western European countries) are precisely those that, in the late twentieth century, invented a new status (‘illegal’) in order to deprive some of their residents of access to equality, human rights, and democracy.I am honored to lend my name to PICUM’s campaign to end the use of the term ‘illegal’ and to challenge the whole concept of illegality as a status.

  Aviva Chomsky

  Country, Commitment, Pride

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• Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

  Dick Gregory

  Respect, Confused, Rights

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• Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.

  Rosika Schwimmer

  War, Men, Rights

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• There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

  Max Baucus

  Past, Rights, Abuse

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• Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.

  Vaclav Havel

  Rights, People, Evil

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