Quotes About Human rights

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

This is America, but the way that the people of Flint are being treated with this water crisis is like a third-world country.

The life of George Floyd matters.

George Floyd had a rich and loving life that was taken from him.

One girl subjected to FGM or forces to marry is one girl too many.

The foreign policy community in Washington has been arguing that America must put our values at the head of our foreign policy once again - and I couldn't agree more, so let's start by leading on women.

Without a free man, there is no free market. That's called exploitation.

The buying and selling of women, girls and boys is a frightening modern day form of slavery that must be stopped.

Education should be a fundamental human right.

I work with 15 organisations that deal with issues ranging from environment protection and wildlife conservation to human rights, and women's and children's rights, etc.

To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Who is against human rights in Belarus today? Of course, no one should view human rights as the right to smash shop windows or stir up unrest in the streets.

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs.

To deal with COVID-19, countries like India, Brazil, Jordan and Thailand are cutting press freedom and freedom of expression. In nations like Israel, South Korea and the U.S., intrusive surveillance has been imposed to track the movement of citizens, at the expense of human rights.

Detention cells in Hong Kong are not pleasant. In Thailand they are even worse. In Hong Kong you are at least allowed to see your lawyers.

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.