Human Rights Quotes - Page 26

• The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

  Ralph Nader

  Rights, Essence, Democracy

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• Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

  Jeannette Rankin

  Women, Home, Rights

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• If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Rights, Leaving

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spring, Winter, Men

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• I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Mother, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Supplementary volume”

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• The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

  Akbar Ganji

  Rights, Democracy, World

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• Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Rights, People, Agendas

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• The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

  Chuck Hagel

  Rights, Play, Democracy

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• All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

  Richard Stallman

  Rights, Government, Abuse

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• Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Rights, Islam, Compelling

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “What I Believe”, p.98, Oxford University Press

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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. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Home, Rights, Progress

  Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.

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• It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Humans, Acceptable

  1995 Addressing the 4th World Conference on Women. Reported in the NewYork Times, 6 Sep.

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• Atheism has no room for human rights.

  Richard Halverson

  Rights, Atheism, Rooms

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• I think it's extremely valuable for us to be able to have a conversation in more than one dialect, speaking to more than one demographic here, finding our common ground, and having a very frank discussion about race, for one thing, which is where he is most hard-hitting, race, and the issues of human rights.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Rights, Race

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Climate, Threat

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which suits our economic elite but has not been helpful to the cause of democracies around the world.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Rights, Support

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Law, Play

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.

  Jill Stein

  Commitment, Rights, Groups

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• We cannot guarantee the human rights of any oppressed group alone.

  Jill Stein

  Rights, Groups, Guarantees

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World Summit on the Information Society only dealt with a small number of issues: ICTs and human rights (to some extent), ICTs and development (to some extent), infrastructure finance and Internet governance. Very large aspects of what might have been included in the "information society" were not really discussed.

  David Souter

  Issues, Rights, Small Numbers

  "Interview with David Souter: Learning from the WSIS Experience". Interview with Kat Walraven, www.apc.org. September 12, 2007.

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• In terms of what is the solution is going forward, in my view, it is the grassroots human-rights groups - both Israeli and Palestinian - that are doing exactly what needs to be done, which is building trust, developing relationships and building that sense of common community which is essential if we're going to figure out how to move forward.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Rights, Views

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• We call for a welcoming path to citizenship, an end to police violence, and a transformed foreign policy based on international law and human rights - not based on these policies of regime change and economic and military domination.

  Jill Stein

  Military, Law, Police Violence

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• 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.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Artist, Rights, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• 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.

  Van Jones

  Country, War, Thinking

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• After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, War, Cutting

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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