Human Rights Quotes - Page 2

I will always work for human rights for all people.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

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.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

Humanitarian assistance and exchanges are still allowed, even under the sanctions regime on North Korea. Therefore, in parallel with sanctions and pressure, we must also employ humanitarian assistance. The meeting of separated families is also a measure to ensure human rights.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

I have gotten the sense that developments when it comes to human rights are very alarming. In the long term, it needs to be in our interest to have a Turkey in which human rights are respected. Anything else would mean destabilization right on our border. If we look away, the developments in Turkey will constantly get worse.

It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.

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.

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations. I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

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

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

Victims should come first.

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.

It is clear that Germany needs a foreign policy in which we jointly define European interests. Thus far, we have often defined European values, but we have been much too weak in defining mutual interests. To preempt any possible misunderstandings: We cannot give short shrift to our values of freedom, democracy and human rights.

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

Unfortunately the situation of human rights in Iran isn't improving. Some of the newspapers were shut down and the government didn't try to reopen the newspapers that were shut down before. And the laws are as bad as before.

We expect Germany to push more strongly for democracy and human rights in Turkey.

I think the issue that concerns us is certainly regaining stability, but issues of human rights are an integral part of our reform policies, of our new constitution.