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...

In American prisons, which are extraordinarily violent places, the most vicious form of punishment is simply to lock a person in an empty room for years with absolutely nothing to do. This emptying of...

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of action and expression; the "victimless" nature of...

On Kwajalein, Louie and Phil learned a dark truth known to the doomed in Hitler's death camps, the slaves of the American South, and a hundred other generations of betrayed people. Dignity is as...

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.

There was a problem: No one cared about human rights anymore, not at home or abroad. They cared about growth — hoped for and celebrated in all the newspapers, invoked by zealous bureaucrats in every...

She was eight years old, with the body of a child, but her spirit was weighed down by an adult suffering.

Justice is a necessity for a fair and free society.

There are 2 - 3 million prostitutes in India, and although many of them now sell sex to some degree willingly, and are paid, a significant share of them entered the sex industry unwillingly.

When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

Religion is deeply intertwined with a person's cultural identity. Hence, trying to take it away, is not only unethical from a humane standpoint, but also it is immoral and downright inhuman.

Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its this wordliness.