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“My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.”

“If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.”

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Author:Mos Def

“All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.”

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Author:Richard Stallman

“Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.”

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Author:Michael McCaul

“Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.”

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Author:Michael McCaul

“To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture, environmental issues, human rights, and my interconnectedness in the web of life. It is a great pleasure for me to find products and practices that have a positive effect on living beings and the environment, rather than a negative one.”

“The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to cover it. That media silence means that every day, these American human rights abuses continue to occur.”

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Author:Garland Waller

“While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.”

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Author:Bob Menendez

“You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.”

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Author:Birch Bayh

“My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.”

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Author:Mike Farrell

“I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.”

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Author:Rod Coronado

“In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.”

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Book:Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel's Just War Against Hamas

Source: Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel's Just War Against Hamas

“A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another human being is saying that a woman's rights are superior to human rights. She has put herself above the human race, she has made herself the executor over life and death. Is that a woman's right?”

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Author:Janet E. Smith

“It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.”

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Author:Bill Drayton

“To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.”

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Author:Anna Lindh

“As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.”

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Author:Rene Cassin

“The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”

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Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.”

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Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.”

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Author:Bulent Ecevit

“When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.”

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Author:Omar Bongo

“Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.”

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Author:Ron Silver

“I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.”

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Author:Peter Krause

“We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.”

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Author:Sam Brownback

“Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.”

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Author:John Charles Polanyi

“Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.”

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Author:Daryl Hannah

“No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.”

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Author:Ernestine Rose

“Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.”

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Author:John Charles Polanyi

“The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.”

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Author:Paul Farmer

“Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.”

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Author:Ernestine Rose

“Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.”

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Author:Joichi Ito

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

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Author:Bianca Jagger

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

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Author:Breyten Breytenbach

“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.”

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Author:Dick Durbin

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

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Author:Ali Khamenei

“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.”

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Author:Jan Egeland

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

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Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“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.”

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Author:Elton Gallegly

“To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.”

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Author:Gerrit Smith

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

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Author:Chen Shui-bian

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

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Author:Stjepan Mesic

“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.”

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Author:Rory Bremner

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

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Author:Ali Khamenei

“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.”

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Author:Curt Weldon

“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.”

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Author:Jane Mayer

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

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Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“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.”

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Author:Rob Bishop

“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.”

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Author:Ernie Fletcher

“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.”

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Author:Judith Light

“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.”

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Book:An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

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