Human Rights Quotes - Page 13

• We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Believe, Rights, Philanthropy

  Jose Ramos-Horta's Nobel Lecture in Oslo. Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1996.

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• Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

  Mary Robinson

  War, Rights, Today

  Mary Robinson (2010). “A Voice for Human Rights”, p.9, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand that this is not a favor or a concession, but simply their natural right to be recognized as belonging to a culture that is distinct from the Western culture, a culture in which they have to live their own faith.

  Samuel Ruiz

  Understanding, Identity, Western Culture

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• Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible.

  Theo van Boven

  Rights, Development, Humans

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• Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Rights, Torture, Ideology

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• When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  People, Looks, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tolerance and human rights require each other.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Rights, Tolerance, Humans

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• We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory of the victims of this war, there is still our duty to try and prevent further bloodshed. We have to prosecute all the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

  Lidia Yusupova

  Giving Up, Memories, War

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• Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help.

  Lidia Yusupova

  Believe, Government, Voice

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• I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.

  Leyla Zana

  Rights, Long, Brotherhood

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• What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Hands, Rights

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• We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we've got to say: look, we're all in this together. We are human beings.

  David Kaczynski

  Equality, Justice, Hatred

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• We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts based on poverty, discrimination and exclusion (social, economic and political) that continue to plague humanity and destroy decades of development efforts. The vicious circle of human rights violations that lead to conflicts-which in turn lead to more violations-must be broken. I believe we can break it only by ensuring respect for all human rights.

  Mary Robinson

  Believe, Rights, Circles

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• We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.

  Kofi Annan

  Rights, Development, Enjoy

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• The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.

  Mary Robinson

  Moving, Rights, Mdgs

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• Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

  Tony Fernandes

  Mean, Rights, Dignity

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• From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Rights, Together, East

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• A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Opportunity, Australia

  "Australia's apology in full". www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

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• The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It is only through the pursuit of practical and effective efforts to promote human rights that we show our real commitment to the welfare of individuals and society.

  Alexander Downer

  Real, Commitment, Rights

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• The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or a standard, to which every man can look and with which he can compare what he in fact enjoys. The fact that no country was prepared to vote against the Declaration indicates its compelling moral force.

  H. V. Evatt

  Country, Men, Rights

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• Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

  Joichi Ito

  Rights, Democracy, Liberty

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• The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Destiny, Men, Race

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

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• Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, Color, Differences

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

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• The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Inspiring, Freedom, Party

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic and political life.

  Navi Pillay

  Pregnancy, Reflection, Rights

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