Human Rights Quotes - Page 13

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

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Rights, Strive, Declaration

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

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• 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.

  Elton Gallegly

  Rights, Law, People

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• To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

  Gerrit Smith

  Rights, Charter, Humans

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

  Chen Shui-bian

  Rights, Issues, Prejudice

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

  Stjepan Mesic

  Rights, Fundamentals, Terrorism

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• 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.

  Rory Bremner

  Rights, Liberty, Would Be

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

  Ali Khamenei

  Rights, Issues, Fundamentals

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• 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.

  Curt Weldon

  Book, Rights, Hussein

  "CNN Live Sunday", www.cnn.com. February 1, 2004.

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• 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.

  Jane Mayer

  Rights, Use, Records

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Religious, Rights, Average

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

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• 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.

  Rob Bishop

  Fighting, Rights, Careers

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• 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.

  Ernie Fletcher

  Rights, America, Principles

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• 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.

  Judith Light

  Fighting, Rights, Finding The One

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• 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.

  Richard Perle

  Rights, Government, Tyrants

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.233, Random House

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• Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Rights, Being Human, Equal

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

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• The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

  Paul Farmer

  Rights, Way, Humans

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• Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Wall, Rights, World

  "Kofi Annan and U.N. Accept 2001 Nobel Peace Prize", www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2001.

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• The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.

  Bernard Lown

  Health, Order, Rights

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• The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

  Evo Morales

  Health, Reality, Worst Enemy

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• UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former combatants, and support the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes.

  Kofi Annan

  Home, Rights, Blue

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• If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Mean, World Government, Rights

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• The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.

  Mary Burnett Talbert

  Greatness, Rights, Law

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• Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts so that the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 'no one shall be held in slavery or servitude' - ring true.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Men, Rights

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• Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of independent unions, etc.) are directly correlated with US government support. The linkage is not accidental; rather it is systematic. The reason is obvious enough. Client fascism often improves the business climate for American corporations, quite generally the guiding factor in foreign policy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Violation Of Human Rights, Government

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• Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

  Mark Thomas

  Rights, Turkeys, Envy

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