Quotes About Human rights

O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

Employment is world slavery

The U.S. government must stand on the side of human rights, the rule of law, and democratic progress, not impede or otherwise stunt such progress.

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 goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

Article 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

I believe that American engagement, through our embassy, our businesses, and most of all through our people, is the best way to advance our interests and support for democracy and human rights.

If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

partial to men, a somewhat precarious position given that Mugabe had denounced gays as 'lower than pigs and dogs', declared them to be 'a colonial invention, unknown in African tradition', and passed laws punishing consensual homosexuality with ten years' hard labour.

but whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights.

El principio de la igualdad de los seres humanos no es una descripción de una supuesta igualdad real entre ellos: es una norma relativa a cómo deberíamos tratar a los seres humanos

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

I think of myself as a human-rights advocate and as a mother.

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.

All Americans are taught, and hopefully believe, in the idea that we are all created equal and should be treated that way.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.