H Quotes
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“Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.”
“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.”
“Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.”
“Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or the concept of pi. The idea of self- ownership is the equivalent of Pythagoras' theorem, of evolution by natural selection, of general relativity, and of quantum theory. Before humankind discovered any of these, it suffered, to varying degrees, in misery and ignorance.”
“Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.”
“Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.”
“Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.”
“Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.”
“Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.”
“Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.”
“Human rights are not controversial. What’s controversial is believing that anyone deserves lesser for the simple fact of their race, class, gender, or beliefs.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.”
“Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the right to send your kids to school, for that child to get health care, for access for greater prosperity for generations to come and to have a say in the destiny of your community and country. Under that definition, Rwanda has nothing to learn from advocacy groups who think they own the copyright on what constitutes human rights under all conditions in every corner of the world.”
“Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.”
“Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.”
“Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.”
“Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.”
“Human rights are rooted in human nature, and we violate fundamental human rights when people are forced to be slaves, wage slaves, servants of external power, subjected to systems of authority and domination, manipulated and controlled "for their own good.”
Source: The Essential Chomsky
“Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.”
“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.”
“Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.”
“Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are 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.”
Source: Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton: United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, September 5-6, 1995, China
“Human Rights calls for responsible behavior on the part of every individual being, and the society at large. As entwined portion of rights, duties follow, thereby it calls for performance of duties such as practicing nonviolence, solving conflicts with a dialogue, respect for the other individual or a nation, respect for human rights of other individuals etc”
“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.”
“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.”
“Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King...it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality, fraternity' - they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“Human rights education is much more than a lesson in schools or a theme for a day; it is a process to equip people with the tools they need to live lives of security and dignity. On this International Human Rights Day, let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.”
“Human rights for everybody, there is no difference.
Live on! And be yourself!”
“Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.”
“Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.”
“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.”
“Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.”
“Human rights is a numbers game. Who is going to care if only 20 people pitch for a protest?”
“Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.”
“Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.”
“Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive”
“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”
“Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.”
“Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.”
“Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.”
“Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)”
“Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.”
“Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.”
“Human rights start with the freedom of equal income and educational opportunity. The deep-rooted inequalities like gender, colour, race and religion discriminations can be uprooted only through equal income and educational opportunity for all.”
Source: Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“Human rights take shape and meaning when they are associated with representative government involving responsibility and duty. So far, the peace proposals do not include popular representation in the council and the assembly, and the people therefore assume no personal responsibility for anything and will therefore gain no personal rights. Commissions (stop us if we are wrong about this) cannot create human rights.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Human rights takes history out of justice.”
“Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It is in the West that human rights are most respected.”
Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
“Human rights violations are nit accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded from harm.”
“Human rights violations are not accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded from harm”
Source: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor