Human Rights Quotes - Page 7

• The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can be seen in the everyday use to which I have seen it increasingly being put by country after country, in policy, in practice and in law.

  Carol Bellamy

  Country, Children, Agreement

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• Please use your freedom to promote ours.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Freedom, Use, Please

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• For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions.

  Coretta Scott King

  Fighting, Gay, Men

  Chicago Tribune, April 01, 1998.

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• The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.

  Vandana Shiva

  Rights, Giving, Water

  Vandana Shiva (2002). “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit”, p.35, South End Press

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• The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust distribution of wealth. It is intolerance of the indigenous, it is discrimination and marginalization.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Issues, Rights, Guatemala

  Source: www.indians.org

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• Right now, American government has stepped back from offering any kinds of protection for human rights and public health. And the fossil fuel industry thinks that they have just absolute free rein to go for it. The one thing in the way is public opposition. It's civil society. It's activism.

  Annie Leonard

  Thinking, Kind, Protection

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Hunger, Humiliation, Abusive

  Acceptance Speech on Assumption of office as President of India, pib.nic.in. July 25, 2012.

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• We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

  Mary Travers

  Mean, Rights, Air

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• I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights.

  Portia Simpson-Miller

  Christian, Believe, Rights

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• The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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• violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Rights

  Louis L'Amour (2011). “The Daybreakers and Sackett (2-Book Bundle)”, p.153, Bantam

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• The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

  Jesse Jackson

  Responsibility, Agendas, Today

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• If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

  "At Lunch with Aung San Suu Kyi" by Cherno Jobatey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and of course the United Nations is based here in New York City. But, unfortunately, especially in the last decade, the U.S. really has been turning its back on international agreements and the set of agencies and procedures that they create as a means for governing the world.

  John Burroughs

  New York, War, Mean

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• Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. And where all three are present, you stand a very good chance of making a go of it.

  Kofi Annan

  Rights, Law, Healthy

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• It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power that extend the paternalistic bias of their work in new ways.

  Judith Butler

  Strong, Rights, Way

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• When you torture a person for long periods you might get a very passionate human rights defender but most probably you will get a beast whose only concern is to seek his revenge in the best way possible.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Revenge, Rights, Long

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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• The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

  Donald Tusk

  Rights, Democracy, Unions

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Religion Of Islam, Feelings

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Mean, Rights

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• You wouldn't know that if you talked to Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or some of the international activist organizations. Certainly you wouldn't know that if you were talking to some of the writers who criticize our drone policy. But I've actually told my staff it's probably good that they stay critical of this policy, even though I think right now we're doing the best that we can in a dangerous world with terrorists who would gladly blow up a school bus full of American kids if they could.

  Barack Obama

  School, Kids, Blow

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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  I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

  Jimmy Carter

  Rights, Champion, Humans

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things.

  Desmond Tutu

  Rights, Dictator, Claims

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• [White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, Men

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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