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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty. -- George W. Bush
Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, -- Evo Morales
...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up. -- Andrew Sullivan
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. -- Hans Kung
Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty. -- Michael Douglas
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority. -- Ernestine Rose
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council. -- Michael McCaul
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform. -- Michael McCaul
Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power. -- Stephen Kinzer
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. -- Michael Ondaatje
We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat. -- Theresa May
The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition. -- Ban Ki-moon
I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights. -- Antonio Tabucchi
So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world. -- Barack Obama
Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten. -- George W. Bush
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. -- Stockwell Day
In the struggle for the rights of the poor in Central America and other places where globalization is bringing its negative effects, there is no organization more effective than the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights. -- Thomas Gumbleton
Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council. -- Michael McCaul
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee. -- Argus Hamilton
The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat. -- Bernard Lown
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life. -- Ernestine Rose
Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines. -- Frank Gaffney
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence. -- Charles Krauthammer
The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. -- Rene Cassin
The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative. -- John Linder
In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations of exploitation. Much of this was initiated by Charlie Kernaghan of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... -- Noam Chomsky
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. -- Garrett Hardin
Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948. -- Albert Einstein
Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge. -- Ban Ki-moon
In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided. -- Martin Almada
History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate. -- Vint Cerf
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine. -- Kailash Satyarthi
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. -- Paddy Ashdown
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right. -- Aretha Franklin
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. -- Imelda Marcos
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. -- Jack Kevorkian
The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right. -- Elizabeth Holmes
The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important. -- Hamadoun Toure
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. -- Kofi Annan
In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders. -- Shakira
A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times. -- Tom Stoppard
To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right. -- Eva Green
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So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. -- Paul Farmer
Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right. -- Ban Ki-moon
There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience. -- Vint Cerf
Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional. -- Stockwell Day
The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church. -- John Sweeney
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That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour. -- Tom Stoppard
I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have. -- Anne Roiphe
The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect. -- Tim Berners-Lee
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right. -- Bob Barr
The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth. -- Jimmy Carter
Vengeance is a human right. -- Gaspar Noe
Music is a fundamental human right -- Gustavo Dudamel
enlightenment should be a human right. -- B. W. Powe
Religious freedom is a fundamental human right. -- Pope Francis
Right human relations is the only true peace. -- Alice Bailey
Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right. -- Anthony Horowitz
Education and water should be a human right. -- Asher Roth
The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right. -- Matthew Kelly
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. -- Germaine Greer
Education is a human right with immense power to transform -- Kofi Annan
Sexual pleasure is a legitimate right of the human being. -- Samael Aun Weor
The right to life is the first among human rights. -- Pope Francis
Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased. -- Shirley Chisholm
To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on. -- Vince Vaughn
Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right. -- Madonna Ciccone
...someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience. -- Dennis Lehane
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. -- Frank Herbert
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Horses react appropriately while waiting for the human to get it right. -- Monty Roberts
All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right. -- Gary Snyder
We call for healthcare as a human right through Medicare for all. -- Jill Stein
Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right. -- Julio Frenk
Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale. -- Jim Wallis
The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know. -- Aga Khan IV
I'd like to believe that following one's bliss is a human right. -- Julie Carmen
Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children. -- Bjorn Ulvaeus
Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live? -- Dennis Prager
No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil. -- Melanie Phillips
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. -- Kofi Annan
We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live. -- Ravi Zacharias
We in Europe ... do not consider the freedom to buy weapons a human right. -- Gisela Kallenbach
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. -- Denis Diderot
It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children. -- Gloria Steinem
Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right. -- Kofi Annan
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love. -- William P. Young
We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves. -- Marilyn Monroe
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations. -- Alexandre Vinet
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings? -- Stephen King
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings~? -- Stephen King
You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense. -- Michael Moore
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions. -- Nelson Mandela
In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right. -- Nelson Mandela
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The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically. -- Paul Farmer
There's no need for drama and hate, y'all. Let's love each other! We're all human, right? -- Taylor York
To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live, -- Pat Tillman
to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right. -- Iris Murdoch
I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music. -- Kanye West
No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place. -- Isaac Babel
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. -- Dean Koontz
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. -- Bruce Schneier
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. -- Germaine Greer
If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right. -- Vernon Howard
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. -- Peter Gay
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. -- Germaine Greer
I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human. -- Lena Dunham
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. -- Laurens van der Post
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. -- Anais Nin
No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time. -- Isaac Babel
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Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food. -- Rudolf Steiner

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