Human Rights Quotes - Page 40

• No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

  George W. Bush

  Rights, President, Done

  "Fortress Bush". Interview with Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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• As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of human rights, and of giving it a form without example, which, as they believe, unites the greatest national strength with the best security for public order and individual liberty, they owe to themselves, to their posterity and to the world, a preservation of the system in its purity, its symmetry, and its authenticity.

  James Madison

  Believe, Rights, Government

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.138

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• [Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

  Oliver Stone

  Rights, Records, Very Good

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• The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Rights, Practice

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• The United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of "investor friendly" regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Government, Violation Of Human Rights

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• The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars.
  You can't take it seriously.

  Eqbal Ahmad

  Lying, Liars, Hypocrite

  Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian (2000). “Eqbal Ahmad, Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian”, p.51, South End Press

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• The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

  Andrew Young

  Rights, Unions, Explosions

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• Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, College, Rights

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.70, Pantheon

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• Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Rights

  Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.285, Chicago Review Press

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• There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Struggle, Rights

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when [Benazir Bhutto] failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her first two years in government during her first term and in fact had a tenure that was marked not only by gross corruption but by human rights abuses, that should have been a time for people to say, "Well, OK, we've given you an opportunity and you haven't bettered the institutions, you haven't strengthened the democratic cause - we may not vote you back."

  Fatima Bhutto

  Believe, Opportunity, Government

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.

  Sepp Blatter

  Country, Rights, Depth

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

  Peter Ustinov

  Attitude, Rights, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let no one doubt, we will defend America's security and the cause of freedom around the world. But we want a president who tells us what America is fighting for, not just what we are fighting against. We want a president who will defend human rights - not just where it is convenient - but wherever freedom is at risk - from Chile to Afghanistan, from Poland to South Africa

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Fighting, America, Rights

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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• I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China.... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Rights, Law, Doubt

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• I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Rights, Wife

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “Living History”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Two, Environmental

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• Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of their full human rights because of their colour, race, ethnicity, descent or national origin.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Race, Ethnicity

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• I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Mean

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness of government, on strengthening individual liberties and local levels of government, I consider myself a conservative. And I don't see that the two attitudes are incompatible.

  Jimmy Carter

  Attitude, Rights, Government

  Jimmy Carter (1998). “Conversations with Carter”, p.51, Lynne Rienner Publishers

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• The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.

  Ronald Reagan

  Eye, Rights, People

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1985”, p.1458, Best Books on

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• We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Home, Rights

  Jimmy Earl Carter “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978”, Government Printing Office

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• If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.

  Peter Tatchell

  Hero, Rights, Abuse

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• Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

  John Legend

  New York, Rights, Victory

  "Lady Gaga, Pink, More React To New York Gay Marriage Bill" by Benjamin Wagner, www.mtv.com. June 25, 2011.

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• The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Country, Rights, Groups

  Statement to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 18 April 2008, New York, NY

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