Top Human Rights Quotes

It is time for the international community to work for the creation of an independent Kurdistan as they did once for the Jews after the Holocaust. The current war against ISIS, which is perceived by m...

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints bei...

As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incauti...

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

If God had wanted us to judge other people, we'd all have been born with silly wigs.

If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.

How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.

For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civil...

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.

Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walking along, through whichever door opens. I have been on a journey and this journey has never stopped....

Six men control almost all the media in the United States--book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappe...

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

Hay gente que pregunta: ¿Por qué usar la palabra feminista? ¿Por qué no decir simplemente que crees en los derechos humanos o algo parecido?. Pues porque no sería honesto. Está claro que el feminismo...

The only way to stop big data from becoming big brother is introduce privacy laws that protect the basic human rights online.