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TODD YOUNG![]()
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform ...
RICHARD PERLE Human rights is new for the military. They usually see human rights as a scapegoat, an instrument us...
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Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in futu...
LIYA KEBEDE Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resis...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chatteri...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and un...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the mind...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rig...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH I'm not saying that we are capable of that horror, but the knowledge of it is probably something tha...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partis...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no r...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and un...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Even ivory towers need central heating.
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH The government is really mixed up about this, to detain all the human rights activists during the vi...
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HILLARY CLINTON![]()
The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning...
AYN RAND![]()
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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JILL LEPORE If you're part of the chain of events that make that happen, then your human rights responsibility a...
ALEX NEVE Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor an...
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The national government has certain kinds of compelling interests that conflict with the right of th...
JOHN YOO![]()
Government should make tough decisions in the larger national interests, even if it upsets the peopl...
SHARAD PAWAR We can tell the citizens we will fight for their rights and we can say that this is going to be the ...
ZORAN DJINDJIC![]()
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an i...
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DR. WILLIAM F. SCHULZ![]()
The Chinese government always has attached a great importance to human rights,
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neigh...
CARL SCHURZ If we do that, we're setting ourselves up for something a whole lot worse. We need to make sure that...
JAMES EDWARDS![]()
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neigh...
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT![]()
As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Strengthening democracy and advancing human rights through the establishment of a National Human Rig...
VICTOR ANGELO![]()
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Governmen...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block...
PEGGY HICKS International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states...
EGON BAHR Sustained close engagement by the United States government is necessary to ensure compliance ... wit...
MICHAEL CROMARTIE These provisions, if adopted, would have a chilling effect on the First Amendment rights of the Amer...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON This case was brought by his family to justice and is handled by the judiciary, which is independent...
KHALEEQ AHMAD The Chinese government consistently respects the universal principles of the international community...
ZHU BANGZAO We do not agree that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of the...
GRAHAM WATSON In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-t...
AYMAN ODEH The interests of national defense are preserved.
DENIS RANQUE We do not agree ... that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of...
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DAVID RIDENOUR Canada will continue to encourage the Afghan government to adhere to its human rights obligations.
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As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligat...
CHARLOTTE BUNCH incapable of advancing Germany's national interests.
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JEMERA RONE As western governments improve relations with Libya, they should press the government to improve its...
KENNETH ROTH I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commissi...
HU JIA With human rights under grave threat each and every day, the government should ensure the continued ...
KAVITA MENON This is a national treasure. It's part of Mark Twain's national legacy and his legacy in Nevada. Wha...
GUY ROCHA![]()
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense o...
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THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in his...
HANNAH ARENDT![]()
The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.
RICKY MARTIN![]()
Personal interests have no importance compared to national interests.
SHEHBAZ SHARIF![]()
'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it&...
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block...
PEGGY HICKS It is extremely damaging to U.S. national interests.
DAVID SCHEFFER![]()
..the Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It c...
WALTER LIPPMANN![]()
The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for, not by the labor agita...
GEORGE BAER [Joe Solmonese, president of Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights advocacy group, said the e...
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DERICK VIRGIL The government is not in the national ID card business; all the credentials (that the government iss...
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RICHARD ENGEL![]()
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of...
EZRA TAFT BENSON![]()
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail
ABRAHAM LINCOLN![]()
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
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The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is...
NOREENA HERTZ It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that...
AUNG SUU![]()
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.
GERHARD SCHRODER In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests th...
TODD YOUNG If the United States government is not serving the interests of the people, then it is because the p...
DWIGHT W. HAYES![]()
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN![]()
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN![]()
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN![]()
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN![]()
Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Deve...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS![]()
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To ki...
LIU XIAOBO![]()
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights. Rather, they designed the Bill o...
JUSTICE WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.![]()
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill...
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SEAN MCCORMACK There has been great improvement in China's human rights situation, but the U.S. report did not reco...
LI XIAOJUN Having a national tobacco monopoly is a challenge, not because the national monopoly is going to nec...
BURKE FISHBURN Beware of life, it has a mysterious way to get you, when you breach the human rights of your fellow ...
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has ...
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TODD YOUNG
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform ... RICHARD PERLE Human rights is new for the military. They usually see human rights as a scapegoat, an instrument us...
INDRIA SAMEGO
Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in futu... LIYA KEBEDE Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resis...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chatteri...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and un...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the mind...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rig...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH I'm not saying that we are capable of that horror, but the knowledge of it is probably something tha...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partis...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no r...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and un...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH Even ivory towers need central heating.
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH The government is really mixed up about this, to detain all the human rights activists during the vi...
HOU WENZHUO Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks the U.S. government has invoked national security and abused execut...
JAMIL DAKWAR
'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. ... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER
A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat ... HILLARY CLINTON
The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning... AYN RAND
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. P. T. BARNUM
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the servi... JILL LEPORE If you're part of the chain of events that make that happen, then your human rights responsibility a...
ALEX NEVE Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor an...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
The national government has certain kinds of compelling interests that conflict with the right of th... JOHN YOO
Government should make tough decisions in the larger national interests, even if it upsets the peopl... SHARAD PAWAR We can tell the citizens we will fight for their rights and we can say that this is going to be the ...
ZORAN DJINDJIC
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an i... JAMES MADISON This report by the U.S. government provides a thorough review of today's human rights practices arou...
DR. WILLIAM F. SCHULZ
The Chinese government always has attached a great importance to human rights, JIANG ZEMIN There's a human rights component. It involves national security, civil rights, the future of our eco...
PAUL ORTIZ
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neigh... CARL SCHURZ If we do that, we're setting ourselves up for something a whole lot worse. We need to make sure that...
JAMES EDWARDS
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neigh... CARL SCHURZ
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society pr... THEODORE ROOSEVELT
As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Strengthening democracy and advancing human rights through the establishment of a National Human Rig...
VICTOR ANGELO
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Governmen... JOHN C. CALHOUN The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block...
PEGGY HICKS International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states...
EGON BAHR Sustained close engagement by the United States government is necessary to ensure compliance ... wit...
MICHAEL CROMARTIE These provisions, if adopted, would have a chilling effect on the First Amendment rights of the Amer...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON This case was brought by his family to justice and is handled by the judiciary, which is independent...
KHALEEQ AHMAD The Chinese government consistently respects the universal principles of the international community...
ZHU BANGZAO We do not agree that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of the...
GRAHAM WATSON In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-t...
AYMAN ODEH The interests of national defense are preserved.
DENIS RANQUE We do not agree ... that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of...
GRAHAM WATSON The issue of human rights is a national security issue for us and while we have lots of issues to ad...
JAY LEFKOWITZ Whatever action the Senate takes on ESA reform should reflect the national, bipartisan outcry for st...
DAVID RIDENOUR Canada will continue to encourage the Afghan government to adhere to its human rights obligations.
PAMELA GREENWELL The state can be inept, irrational and pursue strange interests, but those interests were always see...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligat... CHARLOTTE BUNCH incapable of advancing Germany's national interests.
GERHARD SCHROEDER
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights ... JIMMY CARTER In an eight-day span, the Ugandan government has seriously damaged its human rights reputation by ri...
JEMERA RONE As western governments improve relations with Libya, they should press the government to improve its...
KENNETH ROTH I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commissi...
HU JIA With human rights under grave threat each and every day, the government should ensure the continued ...
KAVITA MENON This is a national treasure. It's part of Mark Twain's national legacy and his legacy in Nevada. Wha...
GUY ROCHA
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense o... JIMMY CARTER
THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in his... HANNAH ARENDT
The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. RICKY MARTIN
Personal interests have no importance compared to national interests. SHEHBAZ SHARIF
'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it&... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block...
PEGGY HICKS It is extremely damaging to U.S. national interests.
DAVID SCHEFFER
..the Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It c... WALTER LIPPMANN
The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for, not by the labor agita... GEORGE BAER [Joe Solmonese, president of Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights advocacy group, said the e...
JOE SOLMONESE Violence is not a respecter of persons and, just like everyone has human rights, every human can hav...
DERICK VIRGIL The government is not in the national ID card business; all the credentials (that the government iss...
DAVE NELSON Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's...
RICHARD ENGEL
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. JIMMY CARTER
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. JIMMY CARTER
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of... EZRA TAFT BENSON
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. SHIRIN EBADI
The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is... NOREENA HERTZ It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that...
AUNG SUU
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that... AUNG SAN SUU KYI We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.
GERHARD SCHRODER In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests th...
TODD YOUNG If the United States government is not serving the interests of the people, then it is because the p...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Deve... MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To ki... LIU XIAOBO
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights. Rather, they designed the Bill o... JUSTICE WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR.
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill... WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR. We are concerned and remain concerned that the (Uzbek) government is trying to silence human rights ...
SEAN MCCORMACK There has been great improvement in China's human rights situation, but the U.S. report did not reco...
LI XIAOJUN Having a national tobacco monopoly is a challenge, not because the national monopoly is going to nec...
BURKE FISHBURN Beware of life, it has a mysterious way to get you, when you breach the human rights of your fellow ...
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has ...
TERRY TEACHOUT
