Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their...

The world's oldest Christian populations have been driven from their homes and have become nearly extinct in the Middle East.

All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.

I believe that our communities can benefit if they know about and participate in the U.N.'s various human rights forums.

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the...

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.

We boast about Pakistan. We say Pakistan is this and that. But when you go out of the country and the way we are checked, I can't tell you. I feel so humiliated the way I am frisked.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Racism is real in this country.

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long - established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House...

Similarly, gender equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of...

The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to...

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the...

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses.

Those who object to human rights protection laws typically do so because they want to be above those laws.

We should refrain from adopting laws that would allow countries with poor scores on the human rights index to exploit backdoors in technology for silencing dissent.

Most of people do not value the blessing of freedom until they lose it.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE... OF THE ENSLAVED... YAZIDI WOMEN

They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days of cruel torments and utter lack of what is needed most to life we spent in...

Will we reach a friendlier shore? Will we find a haven once more? Where we'll be In a place of miracles Now we leave our home For a place of miracles Romanies again must roam Could there be a country...

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make...

I asked a man who took a death boat to Europe across the treacherous waters of the Mediterranean from Libya: "Why are you taking this death boat?" "I am already dead," he said. "This is my coffin. If...