“America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration rates and pollution. We can be a better country. I think we're going to be a better country.” ThinkingWorldShouldHumansWarCountryAmericaRightsSolutionsGreenCleanRateHuman RightsPollutionIncarceration Author:Van Jones
“I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance artist and an anthropologist and a human rights lawyer. Usually at most gatherings, it's all writers. But suddenly I was at a table with all these different people and I learned from each of them, learned from the work they're doing, learned new ways to solve my problems.” PeopleWayHumansDifferentProblemArtistRightsLaborPerformancesTablesHuman RightsSolveLawyerNew WaysGatheringDifferent PeoplesPlaywrightOrganizerAnthropologists Author:Sandra Cisneros
“The changing climate is a threat to human rights.” HumansRightsThreatClimateHuman Rights Author:Mary Robinson
“The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.” HumansLawValuesDifferencesIssuesRightsPerspectiveConceptsConstitutionHuman RightsObstaclesChinaInteractingBiggest Obstacles Author:Ai Weiwei
“The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women's and human rights issues, but the nuke issue and the safe energy movement became really important to me in the mid-'70s.” HumansImportantEnergyWaterIssuesRightsAirMovementSafeConnectionsHuman RightsCancerToxicityAir And WaterNukes Author:Bonnie Raitt
“It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.” HumansRightsHuman RightsAcceptableWomens Rights Author:Hillary Clinton