Human rights violations are nit accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social...
The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
In times of war, the law falls s
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue...
The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university
No voting on who gets to be people.
Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.
Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general--but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretendin...
To every person who has never experienced genuine love and kindness, may you still have the strength to find the love and light that exists within your soul to give, thrive, and shine.
But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like, and grinds me down into the very dirt! And why? Because, he says, I forgot who I was; he says,...
In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among...
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can...
The Constitution only guarantees the Nigerian people the human rights either in their preamble or substantive provisions in the country.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be mer...
Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation.
A human rights activist is the worst type of person to mess with. If I can choose an enemy between the worst finance CEO, or the worst human rights violating dictator, and a human rights activist, I w...
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