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Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, s... MICHAEL MCCAUL
Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights rec... DAVID SUZUKI Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign po...
JACK HOLLAND
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. I... BENJAMIN NETANYAHU The Commission on Human Rights has a serious responsibility to support people who have been deprived...
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The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. RICKY MARTIN Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themsel...
ALI KHAMENEI Strengthening democracy and advancing human rights through the establishment of a National Human Rig...
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CHUCK HAGEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I feel very unsafe, ... In 16 years, the Chinese government has done nothing for political reform. P...
CHEN YONGLIN It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which hav...
ALVA MYRDAL Russia has joined forces with other states that have poor human rights records in opposing efforts t...
HOLLY CARTNER Violence is not a respecter of persons and, just like everyone has human rights, every human can hav...
DERICK VIRGIL
There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why... FIDEL CASTRO
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to educatio... MUHAMMAD YUNUS
It's rare that you get the rights to such a recent, successful play as this. JOHN BYROM If Sudan takes the AU leadership, it wins credibility, but to the detriment of the African Union. Th...
DAVID MOZERSKY In the case of Sudan, the Sudanese government's presence on the commission meant that African states...
PEGGY HICKS I'm obviously delighted that my leadership has been given such a vote of confidence by the membershi...
DAVID PICKERING What's particularly interesting is that, while some of the new human rights courses focus narrowly o...
KATE ALLEN
Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. B... ELLIOTT ABRAMS When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attent...
TODD YOUNG Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper h...
GELILA BEKELE
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. HILLARY CLINTON It's all the more necessary that China embraces the kind of political reform and opening up of socie...
MARY ROBINSON
The nation has lost a committed civil and human rights activist whose life and contributions have ma... CORETTA SCOTT KING Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human r...
KAY GRANGER
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. ABRAHAM LINCOLN In recent years, as higher incidence of diabetes and food allergies have emerged, the chocolate indu...
GREG ZIEGLER
For 15 years the Government of Burma has refused to implement recommendations made by the UN and the... VACLAV HAVEL We are concerned that for the United States, the key issue is oil; second, the war on terrorism; and...
BULAT ABILOV For far too many years Canada has been timid and reluctant to put human rights squarely on the table...
ALEX NEVE This is a clear human rights violation and it is regrettable that it is coinciding with the 50th ann...
YASIR ARMAN [In Saudi Arabia, the report noted the government's] human rights record remained poor, ... views it...
SAUDI ARABIA
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society pr... THEODORE ROOSEVELT So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeepi...
EDWARD LUCK We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER The focus should be more on those who are violating human rights and denying people their human righ...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block...
PEGGY HICKS First, it does not provide effective guarantee to prevent the political confrontation caused by the ...
ZHANG YISHAN
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail ABRAHAM LINCOLN We do not agree that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of the...
GRAHAM WATSON The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block...
PEGGY HICKS You also have to consider legislation such as data protection. There are privacy and human rights la...
PETER SOMMER Human rights is new for the military. They usually see human rights as a scapegoat, an instrument us...
INDRIA SAMEGO [Joe Solmonese, president of Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights advocacy group, said the e...
JOE SOLMONESE
We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean peop... EVAN BAYH
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights ... JIMMY CARTER With human rights under grave threat each and every day, the government should ensure the continued ...
KAVITA MENON
Turning the Internet over to countries with problematic human-rights records, muted free-speech laws... JOHN DOOLITTLE We have to recognize that there are limits on how we can influence the policy not just of China but ...
JIM SASSER
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 We were alarmed to find such a dramatic increase in drug resistance in circulating human influenza v...
RICK BRIGHT
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we,... ROBERT CASEY Human Rights Watch should have, perhaps, directed it's concern to international institutions respons...
NASSER JAWDEH Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has ...
TERRY TEACHOUT Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such...
LEON KASS China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to mat...
LOUISE ARBOUR Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY When the U.S. and other Western powers commit such a gross violation of human rights, it further wea...
AFRASIAB KHATTAK
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the governmen... RICHARD PERLE
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights. AUNG SAN SUU KYI
Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or s... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelli... TOM STOPPARD The commission has long advocated for change and we want to work with the government to make sure ch...
BARBARA HALL We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal ...
BULENT ECEVIT In some Western countries, including in the United States, some people have ignored the overall deve...
SUN YUXI
Gay rights are human rights. HILLARY CLINTON Iran has a dismal record on human rights.
HOWARD BERMAN It now appears that the last thing many human rights groups really wanted was a thoroughly reformed ...
NILE GARDINER
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dyin... ROBERT MAYNARD
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dyi... ROBERT MAYNARD The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of...
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Human rights are indivisible. Freedom and security are not alternatives, they go hand-in-hand ... Mu...
GRAHAM WATSON Even as human rights norms have steadily evolved over the past half-century, the field of citizenshi...
JAMES GOLDSTON
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governme... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF The issue of human rights is a national security issue for us and while we have lots of issues to ad...
JAY LEFKOWITZ This is a black day for human rights in Israel and Palestine. This is collective punishment just as ...
SAEB ERAKAT I'll accuse the prosecutor of violating human rights in Turkey, of neglecting and misusing his posit...
BASKIN ORAN I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
BIANCA JAGGER We were alarmed to find such a dramatic increase in drug resistance in circulating human influenza v...
RICK BRIGHT We spoke about the importance of raising international consciousness on the issue of human rights in...
JAY LEFKOWITZ
Another key element of human ecology is the inviolability of human life, especially at its beginning... POPE JOHN PAUL II The new Human Rights Council will have 47 member countries, not individuals, and the election will b...
DESRA PERCAYA Other countries have an interest in UN reform as well and not just in how the Security Council works...
MARC GROSSMAN The definition of security must be broadened to encompass the security of people, as well as states....
IRENE KHAN
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades,... PAUL FARMER
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To ki... LIU XIAOBO Death Penalty' in rarest of rare cases, should adorn criminal justice system in India,which would op...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN -SENIOR LEGAL CONSULTANT & AUTHOR IN LAW. (B.COM,LLB-GOLDMEDALIST, LLM-GOLDM It's no wonder that the United States was ousted from the United Nations human rights commission,
WILLIAM SCHULZ
Where is the ethic, the justification, the respect for the most basic human rights and the common se... FIDEL CASTRO We do not agree ... that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of...
GRAHAM WATSON
We have lost an eloquent voice for human rights and human dignity and a champion for the least among... GEORGE W. BUSH I believe demonstrations have been planned by human rights groups who are far more annoyed at the hu...
SAMINA AHMED The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to ...
KENNETH ROTH
I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and... 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... 
I've loved reading all my life. 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. 
When all candles be out, all cats be grey. 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... 
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. 
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 
Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? 
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. 
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal... 
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ... 
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress... 
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. 
I can never consent to being dictated to. 
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! 
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim... 
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd... 
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the tw... 