Human Rights Quotes - Page 27

• I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Usa, Rights

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• The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. And we have seen a dramatic increase, the last 10-15 years, of ethnical conflicts and humanitarian crises with human rights violations as important elements., but also more of corruption. Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Rights, Years

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• 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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• There are those who argue that the concept of human rights is not applicable to all cultures. We in the National League for Democracy believe that human rights are of universal relevance. But even those who do not believe in human rights must certainly agree that the rule of law is most important. Without the rule of law there can be no peace.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Believe, Rights, Law

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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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• In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Never let fear prevent you from doing right.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, Rights, Order

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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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• The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Struggle, Rights

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• ...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Rights, Self, Effort

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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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• I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Native American, Thinking

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

  Jill Stein

  Rights, Groups, Guarantees

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• I'm very careful not to isolate Israel on this but to make this part of a transformed foreign policy where we apply the same standards across the board. So it's not just Israel. It's also Saudi Arabia, it's also Egypt. It's where there are massive and systemic violations of human rights and international law.

  Jill Stein

  Rights, Israel, Egypt

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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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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• The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

  Ai Weiwei

  Law, Differences, Issues

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2015.

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• Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, Rights, Permit

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• Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights. I am referring to the case of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners. This violation of the rights of prisoners has been so unbelievable that the United Nations has reminded the United States repeatedly that the treatment of prisoners should take place according to the preestablished conventions of the United Nations.

  Shirin Ebadi

  War, Rights, Government

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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