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“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.”

Humans Mean War Born Democracy Rights Danger Circumstances Normal Human Rights Terror Israel British Behave Britain Introducing Mandates

Author:Shimon Peres

“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.”

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Author:Trevor Phillips

“Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.”

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Author:Samantha Power

“In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.”

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Author:Samantha Power

“The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.”

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Author:Samantha Power

“Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.”

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Author:William Bennett

“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.”

“It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.”

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Author:Carl T. Rowan

“When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.”

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Author:Bayard Rustin

“Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.”

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Author:Benazir Bhutto

“The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.”

“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

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Author:Steven Biko

“It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.”

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Author:Antonio Tabucchi

“Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.”

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Author:U Thant

“If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.”

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Author:Emma Thompson

“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.”

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Author:Gijs de Vries

“The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.”

“I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.”

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Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'”

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Author:Bradley Whitford

“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”

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Book:From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”

“So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.”

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Author:Bono

“Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.”

“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.”

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Book:Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

“We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.”

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Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.”

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Author:Lin Yutang

“I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.”

“I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.”

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Author:Malala Yousafzai

“We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”

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Book:By any means necessary

Source: By any means necessary

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

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Author:Euripides

“If you're feeling helpless, help someone.”

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Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”

Source: My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.”

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Author:William J. Brennan

“Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.”

“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”

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Book:The Young Unicorns

Source: The Young Unicorns

“But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”

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Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.”

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Book:An enemy hath done this

Source: An enemy hath done this

“There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.”

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Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

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