Human Rights Quotes - Page 34

• The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Religious, Dark, Rights

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Mean, Rights, Soldier

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Years, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If we want to avoid a clash of cultures - and the jury is still out on whether we can - we'll have to make different cultures and religions compatible with the universal nature of human rights and tolerance. But I can promise you this: Anyone who calls me an infidel at the conference will be in for a fight.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Fighting, Rights, Tolerance

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• Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a different culture. This doesn't mean that it's an inferior culture, but it is a culture that has yet to connect with the positive sides of our modern Western culture: religious freedom, human rights and equal rights for women.

  Walter Kasper

  Religious, Mean, Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.

  Walter Kasper

  Christian, Religious, War

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We, who think like animals living in small groups, must structure a global world. We believe in universal human rights and believe racism and war are wrong. On the other hand, it is our nature to be cooperative and loving almost exclusively with the members of the group to which we feel we belong.

  Frans de Waal

  War, Believe, Animal

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• Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Rights, Iran, Income

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• They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. Saddam has three young ladies and they have children, I have five, Rana has four, and Hala has two. Therefore, our father is very dear to us. His grandchildren love him a lot. Why aren't humanitarian factors taken into account?

  Raghad Hussein

  Children, Father, Taken

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• I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Atheist, Believe, Rights

  "Taslima Nasrin: “A Writer On Trial”". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, atheistfoundation.org.au. July 1995.

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• Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Rights, Culture, Humans

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee.

  Argus Hamilton

  Rights, Cuba, Joining

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• The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest material and cultural progress, most effectively stems violence and provides the greatest respect for human rights. According to this concept of liberalism, freedom is a single, unified concept. Political and economic liberties are as inseparable as the two sides of a medal.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Rights, Law, Two Sides

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• Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Garden, Thinking

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• It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice.

  Chico Xavier

  Rights, Justice, Selfishness

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• Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Thinking, Rights

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• Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Team, Reality, America

  "The Elephant in The Interview" by Jennifer Armintrout, jennytrout.com. December 19, 2014.

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• During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

  Elliott Abrams

  Rights, Egypt, Democracy

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• American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity on their leaders with respect to accountability for crimes against humanity.

  Richard A. Falk

  Rights, Israel, Leader

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.

  Chip Pitts

  Moral, Sustainability, Chosen

  "Corporate Social Responsibility: Wisdom or Window Dressing?". Interview with William Fisher, truthout.org. April 7, 2010.

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• As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.

  Carly Fiorina

  Russia, Rights, America

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so on.

  Hassan Blasim

  Country, Rights, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.

  Molly Antopol

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have friends and supporters in the Human Rights Fund and Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very, very long time. Some of these groups are, in fact, part of the establishment.

  Bernie Sanders

  Rights, Long, Facts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind - a symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change.

  Adam Braver

  Rights, People, Effort

  Source: therumpus.net

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