Human Rights Quotes - Page 12

• 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.

  Mike Farrell

  Dream, Struggle, Simple

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• 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?

  Janet E. Smith

  Rights, Race, Life And Death

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• 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.

  Bill Drayton

  Powerful, Business, Rights

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Country, Fate

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• 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.

  Anna Lindh

  Rights, Law, Democracy

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• 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.

  Rene Cassin

  Rights, Numbers, Lists

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

  Ernestine Rose

  Book, Rights, Letters

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• 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.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Rights, Years, Two

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• 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.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Rights, People

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

  Ron Silver

  Rights, Laughing, Ethics

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

  Peter Krause

  Rights, Political, Humans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Sam Brownback

  Rights, Democracy, Steps

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

  John Charles Polanyi

  Rights, Support, Use

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

  Daryl Hannah

  Animal, Rights, Humanitarian

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• 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.

  Ernestine Rose

  Rights, Self, Two

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• 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.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Technology, Rights, Oppression

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• 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.

  Paul Farmer

  Rights, Views, Community

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

  Ernestine Rose

  Sex, Party, Rights

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

  Joichi Ito

  Fighting, Rights, Essentials

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• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  Hans Kung

  Rights, Essence, Ethics

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

  Bianca Jagger

  Rights, Years, Lasts

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

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Rights, Government, Yardsticks

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• 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.

  Dick Durbin

  Rights, Hair, Law

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

  Ali Khamenei

  Teaching, Islamic, Rights

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• 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.

  Jan Egeland

  Rights, People, Atrocities

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