Human Rights Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Women, Eye, Rights

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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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• 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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• 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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• We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights

  Lisa Kudrow

  Sex, Rights, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do

  Judith Light

  Mean, Gay, Rights

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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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• Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of leaders to tackle the causes and to settle for peace, and international determination to push for peace and then to consolidate it. Consolidating peace means helping societies emerging from war to reintegrate refugees in safety and dignity, to rebuild their institutions - including in the field of justice and human rights - and to resume their economic development.

  Sadako Ogata

  Determination, War, Mean

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspiring, Children, Home

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life of slavery, of humiliation and contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not give in to the Turkish Inquisition.

  Leyla Zana

  Passion, Love Life, People

  Leyla Zana (1999). “Writings from Prison”

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• Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Children, Rights

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• Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Acceptance, Rights, Atmosphere

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• Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

  Vaclav Havel

  Powerful, Patriotic, Rights

  "Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism" by Slavoj Zizek in London Review of Books, Volume 21, No. 21 (pp. 3-6), www.lrb.co.uk. October 28, 1999.

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• Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?

  Eugene V. Debs

  Brother, Children, Helping Others

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Gay, Rights

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

  James A. Baldwin

  Rights, Order, Revolution

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• Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.

  Nelson Mandela

  Kings, Selfish, War

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 28, 2013

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• Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights – I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.

  Angelina Grimke

  Jesus, Men, Rights

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• The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Gay, Rights, Today

  Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961, in Vital Speeches 1 Feb. 1961, p. 226

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• This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation.

  Macklemore

  Gay, Moon, Men

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• We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.

  Leopoldo Lopez

  Rights, Government, Practice

  "Venezuelan Democracy Gets Its Day In Court" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2011.

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