I am passionate about human rights.
And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (...
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was ...
I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. . . ...
Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence.
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.
The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur’ān assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqwā)
I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.
Human rights; they are in the hands of mankind and nowhere else.
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation.
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.
On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.
It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that...
Human Rights directs my path" ~ ~ Minnie Estelle Miller 2011
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
