Responsibility To Protect Quotes

• In today's highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another. It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members, and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Support, Needs

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• We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Leader, Care

  Twitter post from Apr 01, 2014

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• Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights norms is a restraint on interventionary diplomacy, especially if coupled with respect for the legal norm of self-determination. But on another level, the protection of human rights creates a pretext for intervention as given approval by the UN Security Council in the form of the R2P (responsibility to protect) norm, as used in the 2011 Libyan intervention. The same applies with international criminal accountability.

  Richard A. Falk

  Determination, Responsibility, Self

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

  Joy Adamson

  Responsibility, Animal, Brain

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• It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

  Don Cheadle

  Responsibility, Firsts, Moral

  "Climate Champions speak out: Don Cheadle on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

  Loretta Lynch

  Responsibility, Generations, Sake

  "Philadelphia art store owner charged with smuggling African ivory", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2011.

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• Remember that even just watching animals has an impact. Intrusion into their living space can expose them to predation, keep them from feeding or other essential activities, or cause them to leave their young exposed to predation or the elements. No photo or viewing opportunity is worth harassing or stressing wildlife. In appreciating and watching them, we have a responsibility to protect and preserve the animals that share our state.

  Mary Taylor

  Stress, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• With the children of Holocaust survivors, there is always a very close relationship. You grow with the sense that you are parenting your parents and - with this kind of responsibility to protect them. That's what makes the children of Holocaust survivors strange.

  Amira Hass

  Children, Responsibility, Holocaust

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The federal government has the responsibility to protect the nation's public health, to protect us from foreign threats. And it [Zika] really is an illness that we are seeing arrive from abroad. So it is a threat to public health, and it is the federal government's job to cooperate in this.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Responsibility, Government

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• It didn't really change my opinion about [Edward] Snowden all that much, but I definitely feel like as a culture, it gave us information that generated a responsibility to protect ourselves as much as we can and also a responsibility to hold our government accountable to honoring our constitutional rights.

  Zachary Quinto

  Responsibility, Rights, Government

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the government, we have a very important responsibility to protect the rights of our pastors and religious leaders. They have the freedom to speak out about what they believe, without fear of repercussions from their very own government.

  Steve Daines

  Religious, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Different, Ministry

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.

  Joe Manchin

  Responsibility, People, States

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• Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face

  Phil Harding

  Responsibility, Land, Important

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• We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not nor will we ever monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.

  Janet Napolitano

  Responsibility, Rights, People

  "Chorus of Protest Grows Over Report Warning of Right Wing Radicalization". www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2009.

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• We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.

  Pamela A. Matson

  Responsibility, Sake, Share

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• Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.

  Adria Petty

  Responsibility, Musician, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

  Tony Abbott

  Responsibility, Iraq, Self

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Responsibility, Scientist, Protect

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• The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

  Bob Etheridge

  Responsibility, Government, Terrorist

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• And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.

  Jan Brewer

  Responsibility, People, Borders

  "Exclusive: Gov. Brewer - We're Not Going to Put Up With Insecure Borders Anymore". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2010.

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• We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge of climate change requires that we ask no less of our leaders, or ourselves.

  Wangari Maathai

  Responsibility, Rights, Leader

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• The natural world is a gift that we have the obligation to treasure and use carefully. It is our moral responsibility to protect it from damage, and to pass it on to our heirs in good condition. To do less is to dishonor the Giver and the gift.

  Frederick Victor Grey Wymark

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Use

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• We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.

  Jim Clyburn

  Children, Responsibility, Healthy

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• Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

  Erma Bombeck

  Responsibility, Motherhood, Mind

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.240, Open Road Media

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