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You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues. -- Sally Field
In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can. -- Ian Mckellen
I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years. -- Bianca Jagger
Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has been on the bad side of the Chinese government for years. -- Terry Teachout
What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc. -- Chris Smith
A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond. -- Hillary Clinton
The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003. -- Dave Eggers
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department. -- Jack Schwartz
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. -- John Yoo
We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability. -- Warren Christopher
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security. -- Jonathan Powell
I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant. -- Dambisa Moyo
Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.' -- Terry Pratchett
Gay rights are human rights. -- Hillary Clinton
Atheism has no room for human rights. -- Richard Halverson
I recognize no rights but human rights. -- Angelina Grimke
You can't have occupation and human rights. -- Christopher Hitchens
Tolerance and human rights require each other. -- Simon Wiesenthal
Iran has a dismal record on human rights. -- Howard Berman
Iran has a dismal record on human rights." -- Howard Berman
Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations. -- Shirin Ebadi
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights. -- Mahnaz Afkhami
Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations. -- Curt Weldon
No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses. -- Raul Castro
[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record. -- Oliver Stone
Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation. -- Macklemore
China will certainly pay more attention to human rights. -- Liu Jingmin
No cause can justify the abuse of human rights. -- Irene Khan
Without peace, there is little hope for human rights -- Martin Ennals
The changing climate is a threat to human rights. -- Mary Robinson
Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts. -- Mary Robinson
I will always work for human rights for all people. -- Rosa Parks
A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights. -- Lucretia Mott
The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements. -- Evan Osnos
I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender. -- Pamela Yates
Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive -- Simon Wiesenthal
To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. -- Gerrit Smith
The right to life is the first among human rights. -- Pope Francis
A human being has no natural rights of any nature. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Gay rights and human rights are...one and the same. -- Hillary Clinton
I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights, -- Portia Simpson-Miller
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. -- Hillary Clinton
We cannot guarantee the human rights of any oppressed group alone. -- Jill Stein
It is individuals who have human rights, not religions or beliefs -- Ian Harris
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. -- Eldridge Cleaver
The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion. -- Augusto Pinochet
Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible. -- Theo van Boven
One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights. -- Andrew Linzey
The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power. -- Mary Robinson
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress, -- Hillary Clinton
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. -- Richard Stallman
The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments. -- Mary Robinson
Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion. -- Alice Schwarzer
We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad. -- Sam Brownback
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. -- Nelson Mandela
There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights. -- Irene Khan
No President has ever done more for human rights than I have. -- George W. Bush
Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential. -- Joichi Ito
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more. -- John Ortberg
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . -- Jeannette Rankin
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. -- Breyten Breytenbach
Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation, -- Patrick Stewart
We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty. -- Jose Ramos-Horta
We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights. -- Dan Quayle
I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights. -- Rod Coronado
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal. -- Hillary Clinton
Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America. -- Ryan Coogler
Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on! And be yourself! -- Macklemore
I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life. -- Sanjay Rawal
Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse. -- Thomas Szasz
Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century. -- Mary Robinson
I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that. -- Peter Krause
AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue. -- Nelson Mandela
Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality. -- Tony Fernandes
Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress. -- John Legend
Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever. -- Anna Lindh
The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. -- Ricky Martin
No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us. -- Hillary Clinton
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms. -- Stjepan Mesic
My own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. -- Hillary Clinton
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. -- Joichi Ito
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. -- Daryl Hannah
Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. -- William Bennett
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. -- Shirin Ebadi
It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights. -- Hillary Clinton
The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia. -- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live. -- Ravi Zacharias
Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being. -- Desmond Tutu
FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society. -- Waris Dirie
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights -- Thomas Jefferson
I'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights. -- Taslima Nasrin
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. -- John Charles Polanyi
Transnational Corporations must be legally accountable for the negative human rights impacts of their activities. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat. -- Buzz Aldrin
I recognize no rights but human rights--I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights ... -- Angelina Grimke
No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all. -- Ai Weiwei
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. -- Abraham Lincoln
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. -- Dorothy Height
Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. -- Dag Hammarskjold
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems. -- Mahnaz Afkhami
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It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay. -- Hillary Clinton
I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues. -- Grimes
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. -- Jimmy Carter
We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights. -- Blake Mycoskie
The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights. -- Vladimir Sorokin
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. -- Dag Hammarskjold
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent. -- Mahnaz Afkhami
If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? -- Ai Weiwei
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent. -- Malcolm X
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won. -- Joichi Ito

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