“There had been tremendous progress toward a consensus in creating a human rights council. That consensus has now been damaged because Bolton picked up the pages of the draft document and threw them into the air.”
Kenneth Roth
“Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.”
Kofi Annan
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”
Jimmy Carter
“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail”
Abraham Lincoln
“We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extermination of human rights.”
Dan Quayle
“There's a human rights component. It involves national security, civil rights, the future of our economy ? a whole international and geopolitical component.”
Paul Ortiz
“To work to change practices, to change some of the policies, so that people's basic human rights and civil rights are protected and upheld.”
Jennifer Allen
