Quotes About Human rights

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn't make it right.

No one should be denied the opportunity to choose his or her spouse. It is a basic human right and deeply personal decision.

The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

What this man did, Fidel Castro, is he oppressed his people for nearly six decades. That legacy is firing squads. It's poverty. It's denying human rights.

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

What we saw in Tiananmen Square 31 years ago was a massacre, a massacre of innocent people that came from Hong Kong but also Chinese people to protest.

Protecting basic rights such as freedom of expression enhances social stability.

Liberals have been committed to the principles of human rights, international stability, and international justice. They have also sought international solutions to those problems which have demanded collective attention.

In the very near future, I guarantee that the pictures you post on social media will affect your credit rating, health and auto insurance policies, and much more. It will all happen automatically. In a very real way, our rights and freedoms will be modulated by our metadata signatures. What's at stake, obviously, is the future of the human race!

The prospect of an Africa dominated by China means that progress in human rights and democracy in the region will stall and could be reversed.

There may be circumstances in which damaging our relationship with countries over human rights is counterproductive and the benefits to human rights may be very small because of our limited capacity to enforce our stance. That was the dilemma the United States faced after Tiananmen Square.

I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.

We have enormous interests in the Asia Pacific. In addition to our economy, we need to secure our allies, protect our environment, promote peace and stability, ensure the free-flow of commerce, and stand up for human rights.

An administration that really wanted to win an ideological contest with the Chinese Communist Party would stand up for human rights consistently, rather than calling journalists anywhere 'the enemy of the people.'

I think that Canadians in general very much understand... that we need to engage in the world and stand up for human rights.

I've been a homosexual all my life. My partner and I don't want to stand up and say we're gay, because we think that's wrong.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms.

Chevron's failure to adhere to basic standards of decency undermines the credibility of our capitalist model and diminishes confidence that our judicial system can serve the poor as well as the rich.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.