Human Rights Quotes - Page 33

• Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It is in the West that human rights are most respected.

  Ibn Warraq

  Sex, Rights, Ethnicity

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.15, Encounter Books

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• It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.

  Ibn Warraq

  Religious, Gay, Civilization

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom.

  Ibn Warraq

  Mean, Race, Self

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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• Our kids are our future. They deserve every possible opportunity to start their day with enthusiasm, encouragement and food in their stomachs. Protecting human rights of every man, woman and child is fundamental. Kids cannot protect themselves. It's up to us to ensure they have what they need to be all they can possibly be.

  Arlene Dickinson

  Encouragement, Children, Kids

  Source: yourmcmurraymagazine.com

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• In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Rights, Important

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Attitude, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks who live there. Men do men's work, women do women's work, and so it all gets done and the jackals can't get into the hut and eat grandpa. So, the future of the transgender movement is like the future of all human rights movements: whatever the state of things in your area now, with some work it all gets a little bit better all the time, even if it is sometimes three steps ahead and two steps back.

  Kate Bornstein

  Ocean, Men, Two

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

  Robert C. Maynard

  Fighting, Men, Rights

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• I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.

  Barbara Bush

  Mean, Rights, People

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• There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

  Julie Bishop

  Children, Genuine Concern, Rights

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.

  Wayne Smith

  Moving, Rights, Cuba

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• A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.

  Simon Davies

  Cutting, Sacrifice, Rights

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• The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded us how many women are still fighting for basic human rights. Our great-grandmothers' struggle in all its shocking detail seemed so relevant.

  Sarah Gavron

  Struggle, Grandmother, Fighting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The disgraceful and shameful construction of walls, the increasing enforcement of security systems and increasing violation of human rights and labor rights will not protect the economy of the United States.

  Vicente Fox

  Wall, Security Systems, Violation Of Human Rights

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Rights, Principles, Fundamentals

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Rights, Goal

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “Building peace through strength: August 23, 1983”

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• Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Hurt, Rights

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• Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

  Alan Keyes

  Rights, Order, Would Be

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• I worked on human rights projects in Haiti, Cameroon, and East Asia, and the bigger ones tended to do with agriculture. My role was to make sure that there was equity that remained at the base of those projects, with the workers. I had a couple of different lives.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Couple, Rights, Agriculture

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Rights, Business Life, Humans

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the millions of people around the world that are mired in poverty.

  Pamela Yates

  Believe, Rights, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films are about people fighting for their rights and their quest for justice. My films aren't depressing, are very human, and always offer a way forward.

  Pamela Yates

  Depressing, Fighting, Rights

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, Believe, Rights

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

  Pamela Yates

  Artist, Rights, Filmmaker

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.

  Pamela Yates

  Rights, Law, Use

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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