“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.” HumansLibertyRightsAchievementUniversalHuman RightsDeclarationLandmarksDeclaration Of Human Rights Book:Public paper of the presidents of the United States Source: Public paper of the presidents of the United States
“American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity on their leaders with respect to accountability for crimes against humanity.” HumansWellsHumanityLeaderRightsSpecialCrimeBlindHuman RightsIsraelAccountabilityArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisImpunityEncroachmentCrimes Against HumanitySpecial Relationship Author:Richard A. Falk
“As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.” HumansAmericaPresidentRightsMiddleTestsHuman RightsChinaEastRussiaOur TimeAlliesMiddle EastSignalsAdversaries Author:Carly Fiorina
“It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.” ThinkingKnowsWritingFirstsHumansImportantBookStoriesSituationOpinionKnow HowRightsGroupsConflictMessagesHuman RightsViolentIntenseIsraeliTrickyArab Israeli Conflict Author:Molly Antopol
“I have friends and supporters in the Human Rights Fund and Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very, very long time. Some of these groups are, in fact, part of the establishment.” HumansLongHas BeensFactsRightsGroupsLong TimeClintonHuman RightsFundParenthoodEstablishmentSupporterPlanned Parenthood Author:Bernie Sanders
“Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind - a symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change.” PeopleWorldMindHumansPersonsShowsInterestEffortSawsRightsConceptsHuman RightsConnectedActivismFlagsStarvingSymbolicQuads Author:Adam Braver
“I was somewhat confused when senator [Bernie] Sanders said, well, you know, Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign, they`re part of the establishment.” KnowsHumansWellsSaidRightsHuman RightsCampaignsConfusedParenthoodEstablishmentSenatorsPlanned Parenthood Author:Hillary Clinton
“If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work so hard and defend it and fight for it.” IfsHumansHardWould BeFightingRightsHuman RightsQuittingCampaignsParenthoodEstablishmentPlanned Parenthood Author:Hillary Clinton
“I have fought the establishment, run primaries, my entire career. I think that for Planned Parenthood or NARAL or the Human Rights Campaign to be considered the establishment, somebody's not paying close attention to how American politics works.” ThinkingHumansRunningAttentionCareersRightsHuman RightsCampaignsPrimariesParenthoodEstablishmentAmerican PoliticsPlanned Parenthood Author:Claire McCaskill
“Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.” HumansImportantFightingRightsStandingHuman RightsCampaignsParenthoodPlanned Parenthood Author:Bernie Sanders
“Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign they`re not really the establishment. I can`t obviously speak for Senator Bernie Sanders or about Planned Parenthood. But what we do see, and we`ve seen for years in America, is that the establishment, that is, the big banks and the executives and the wealthy do support a lot of non-profits and make the non-profits basically walk to the tune of the establishment.” YearsHumansI CanBigsAmericaSpeakWalksSupportRightsHuman RightsProfitCampaignsTunesExecutivesWealthyParenthoodEstablishmentSenatorsPlanned ParenthoodNon Profit Author:Robert Reich
“There are a variety of groups, Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Sierra Club, that are groups that do very good work, that do a lot of things that I personally believe in, that are also as a descriptive matter they`re part of what you`re going to call an establishment in Washington of the sort of center-left probably, Center for American Progress. They are part of it.” BelieveHumansMatterLeftRightsProgressGroupsVery GoodHuman RightsClubsCampaignsVarietyParenthoodEstablishmentGood WorkPlanned ParenthoodSierra Author:Chris Hayes
“To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.” PeopleIfsHumansRealEnoughJobsStuffPayTalkingRightsLuckyAbuseHuman RightsTerrorTechniqueGood JobPencilsAtrocitiesSharpeningReal Stuff Author:David Rees
“We [Israel] already have two very strong democratic tools - the two basic laws of personal liberties and human rights. I think we should also provide the judiciary with another tool so that they can rely on the fact that Israel is a Jewish state in verdicts.” ThinkingShouldHumansTwoStatesFactsLawStrongLibertyRightsToolsDemocraticHuman RightsIsraelRelyVery StrongJudiciaryVerdictPersonal Liberty Author:Ayelet Shaked
“Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.” IfsWantHumansLooksAmericaSupportRightsMovementKissingHuman RightsTragicIranKiss Of Death Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.” WantShouldHumansCultureRightsEconomicOughtSpeechHuman RightsProductionsStatementsFreedom Of SpeechReproduction Author:Gloria Steinem
“Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our children and to try to do all these different things. The expectations have changed drastically, and thank God they have. Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.” WorldTryingHumansChildrenDifferentHuman BeingsRightsChangedExpectationsOur ChildrenSpeciesDifferent ThingsThank GodHuman Species Author:Patricia Arquette
“I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones. The destruction of lives and hopes, the emotional trauma, and the economic, social, and political marginalization of the displaced, the human insecurity, with real and potentially devastating consequences over generations, in ever-widening arenas of conflict. We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.” HumansRealPoliticalSocialVoiceRightsGenerationsHeardEconomicEmotionalConflictConsequenceDestructionTragedyHuman RightsIraqTraumaHumanitarianPostsZoneInsecuritySyriaAnguishPakistanPalestineArenaMarginalizationEmotional Trauma Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously. Iran's recent missile test, for example, was a violation of its international obligations.” HumansStillsSupportRightsExampleProgramTestsInternationalHuman RightsTerrorismObligationIranViolationSanctionsMissilesViolation Of Human Rights Author:Barack Obama
“And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt.” PeopleThinkingMenHumansSometimesBigsRememberFeltProcessJusticeIssuesRightsHe ManHusbandHuman RightsChiefsGovernorsEleanorImpassionedChief JusticeInternment Author:William A. Rusher
“Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military ouster of Egypt's unpopular, but elected Islamist president in 2013, we saw political opponents being arrested by the thousands, really. Then we saw a popular comedian go off the air out of fear of retribution.” HumansWellsSaidPoliticalPresidentSawsRightsAirMilitarySpeechHuman RightsLawyerComedianOpponentsSpokesFreedom Of SpeechExpansionEgyptArrestedRetributionDefendersIslamistsPolitical Opponents Author:Leila Fadel
“When ISIS last year called for the destruction of the Yazidi people, President Obama said that would constitute genocide and he ordered U.S. forces to keep it from happening. Human rights advocates say Christians now face a similar threat Nina Shea directs the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute.” PeopleYearsHumansSaidChristianLastsFacesForcePresidentReligiousRightsHappeningsDestructionThreatHuman RightsGenocidePresident ObamaLast YearIsisInstituteReligious FreedomNina Author:Tom Gjelten
“Over the last eight years of being on YouTube, I've seen so much progress. I think the reason for that is that a lot of young people are having open dialogue and honest conversations about social justice and human rights.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansReasonLastsYoungSocialJusticeRightsProgressHonestConversationSocial JusticeHuman RightsEightDialogueYoutube Author:Tyler Oakley
“It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed, for instance, as Orthodox Jews do, that women are unclean during their menstrual periods.” PeopleHumansI CanLawFallHuman BeingsRightsImaginePeriodsEqualFundamentalsFalling In LoveHuman RightsJewInstanceOrthodox Author:Susan Jacoby
“Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.” HumansDemocracyRightsYouthFinancialHuman RightsTeensHong KongLove FreedomDemocracy And Human Rights Author:Joshua Wong
“I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensPastFacesPoliticalRightsPoliticianLuckyHuman RightsJailActivistHong KongProsecution Author:Joshua Wong
“The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the Ministry of Intelligence and their people. This is why we witness a number of journalists and human rights activists, my colleagues, and a number of feminists, in prison.” PeopleHumansImportantProblemLostNumbersRightsInfluenceIndependenceCourtPrisonHuman RightsFeministWitnessJournalistIranActivistMinistryColleagues Author:Shirin Ebadi
“I would say that not many German people are still alive, who experienced what happened during the third reich. We don't have to go to the Stasi, we can go to the Gestapo, and see what happens, when your human rights, your ability to a freedom of expression and a freedom of thought is infringed upon. This is terribly, terribly dangerous territory.” PeopleHumansStillsHappensAbilityAliveRightsHappenedDangerousExpressionThirdsHuman RightsTerritoryFreedom Of ThoughtFreedom Of ExpressionGestapo Author:Ray McGovern
“We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent, in the face of injustice, are more guilty than the perpetrators." And so, to the degree we pretend to be a democracy, we have a corresponding duty to be activist enough to prevent our human rights form being infringed upon.” HumansEnoughFacesFormResponsibilityDemocracyRightsDutyDegreesSilentInjusticeHuman RightsGuiltyProphetActivistCorrespondingRabbiPerpetrators Author:Ray McGovern
“The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.” GivingHumansHuman BeingsRightsCourtSupremeAbsurdCorporationsSupreme Court Author:Malachy McCourt
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.” WantHumansLeaderRightsWesternHuman RightsArroganceRomeViolationImpunityStatutes Author:Yoweri Museveni
“For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent human natural rights of liberty and translate them into an age of new technolog” HumansAgeNaturalLibertyRightsInherentTranslateChannelingMadisonNatural RightsLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged human rights programs. The main issue is state-directed international terrorism. Right at that time that big industry developed. That's when you start getting the academic departments on terrorism.” HumansKindStatesBigsIssuesRightsPlansIndustryProgramInternationalHuman RightsTerrorTerrorismAdministrationDepartmentAcademicCarterInternational Terrorism Author:Noam Chomsky
“I'll tell you what gives me hope. After the struggle for marriage equality, the LGBTQ community has built some very powerful organizations; in particular, I'm thinking of HRC (the Human Rights Campaign), GLAAD... but there are many, many others, too. Along with those organizations come some savvy and tested leaders who have come to understand not only how to change hearts and minds but also legislators and judges votes.” ThinkingGivingMindHumansHeartCommunityPowerfulLeaderStruggleRightsParticularJudgingBuiltVoteOrganizationGive MeHuman RightsCampaignsTestedHeart And MindVery PowerfulLegislatorsSavvyMarriage Equality Author:Steven Petrow
“That term, 'human rights', makes me ill.Human rights are only for 'humans', therefore for the West. And for the rest of the Planet: there, the 'human rights' are used to discredit uncomfortable, even 'hostile' governments through countless implants like NGOs.” HumansGovernmentUsedTermRightsPlanetsWestHuman RightsIllUncomfortableHostileDiscreditImplants Author:Andre Vltchek
“Who talks about the real human rights violations, those committed by the West? Europeans and North Americans have already butchered hundreds of millions of people, or close to one billion, to be precise. They have been looting, torturing and raping. Even now, they are killing millions directly and tens of millions indirectly.” PeopleHumansHas BeensRealMillionsRightsWestKillingHuman RightsCommittedBillionsPreciseViolationReal HumanLooting Author:Andre Vltchek
“If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.” PeopleIfsHumansRightsHuman RightsHolocaustAtrocities Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.” HumansDoeCoursesEvilRightsFieldsDegreesSlaveryKillingHuman RightsCompareRememberedGenocideAtrocitiesArmeniansCambodia Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“The cases involving the question of whether U.S. courts should be open to claims of international human rights violations brought by foreign persons against foreign government officials. And the State Department on the one side has got a very consistent and powerful view that U.S. courts should be open to those claims because there needs to be a place in the world where they can be brought. And those human rights norms ought to be real and enforceable, and we ought to be a beacon to the world.” WorldNeedsShouldHumansPersonsRealStatesGovernmentSidesViewsPowerfulCasesRightsOughtClaimsCourtInternationalHuman RightsOfficialsDepartmentConsistentBeing RealNormViolationInvolvingPlaces In The WorldBeaconsGovernment Officials Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected.” PeopleNeedsShouldHumansStatesGovernmentLawValuesUnitedUnited StatesRightsWrittenDeserveHuman RightsTraditionalAcknowledgeNativeProtectedNative AmericanSovereigntyTreatiesState GovernmentAmerican ValuesUnited States Government Author:Leonard Peltier
“Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.” NeedsHumansBigsRightsGroupsCompetitionHuman RightsChecksWealthyLockedFierceHeadlinesDonors Author:Paul Kagame
“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.” ThinkingWorldHumansChildrenCountryCareKidsSchoolCommunityDestinyGreaterRightsGenerationsGroupsConditionsWesternHuman RightsDefinitionsProsperityCornersAccessHealth CarePreservesActivistCopyrightAdvocacyRwandaCorners Of The World Author:Paul Kagame
“It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.” FeelsHumansLooksHas BeensSoulSelfFeelingsPainTogetherHuman BeingsAnimalConsciousnessSupportRightsEmotionalMoralityEthicsSpeciesObsessionLook UpConsiderationHierarchyDeservingCognitiveLumpsSelf ConsciousnessHuman SpeciesPhysical PainSpeciesismMorality And Ethics Author:Sharon Gannon
“The basic problem affecting the Pakistan today is human rights. Islamic fundamentalists have no roots among the common people and while they are pushing hard for religious fundamentalists to take hold, the common people still seek change through humanitarian and common human rights law.” PeopleHumansStillsHardProblemTodayLawReligiousCommonRightsRootsHuman RightsHumanitarianIslamicPushingPakistan Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.” PeopleWantFirstsBelieveHumansKindProblemCommonRightsEconomicDon't BelieveIncludingHuman RightsSolveIslamic Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.” WorldHumansSufferingPracticeRightsFundamentalsHuman RightsInternalsDivisionViolationRights And FreedomsMuslim World Author:Fethullah Gulen
“The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.” HumansRightsMaterialsProductsSourceHuman RightsStoresChainsMapsDeliveringSupply Chain Author:Julia Ormond
“People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they can still be horribly abused and are every day. You don't have to go to some far off land, far away place; we have a lot of child abuse in our own society.” PeopleIfsHumansChildrenStillsFightingAnimalRightsLandOughtAbuseHuman RightsAnimal RightsChild AbuseFar Away Author:Jane Goodall
“We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.” HumansVoiceRightsHeardHuman Rights Author:Queen Noor of Jordan