80 quotes found
“Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation.”
“Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.... Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.”
“If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knights quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, I exist. I have no reas...”
“Being lesbian isn't a way of life, it's a trivial attribute that doesn't change your character.”
“But *why* do clean torture and democracy appear to go hand in hand? This is an important puzzle (though by no means the only one suggested by the data). My explanation for this pattern generally is...”
“I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.”
“It is vital to acknowledge the new reality before taking any steps to change the existing policies. The world is not the same anymore. Tackling religion-based terrorism is perhaps one, if not the m...”
“Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself.”
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments...”
“If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.”
“Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then w...”
“One cannot fail to notice the inconsistency of those rejecting human rights: their rejection takes place in the public square created by human rights. It is difficult to reject human rights without...”
“Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university”
“Human Rights directs my path"~ ~ Minnie Estelle Miller 2011”
“Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most devastating form. I am aware that, in some minds, this tends to be regarded as a delicate subject....”
“No voting on who gets to be people.”
“Those who object to human rights protection laws typically do so because they want to be above those laws.”
“rights are honored only in the breach. most people don't get agents or cops assigned to them until they're already raped or dead.”
“Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to b...”
“Were currently faced with two entirely different challenges facing down Islamism and jihadism on the one hand, and advancing human rights and democratic culture on the other.”
