“The EU largely ignored human rights abuses by its friends in Africa. It was very good about speaking out against the pariah Zimbabwe. But when it came to Angola, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, there was little if anything said.”
Kenneth Roth
“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail”
Abraham Lincoln
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”
Jimmy Carter
“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
“We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extermination of human rights.”
Dan Quayle
“Human rights and civil rights are at the forefront of today's society, even as much as they were in the 1960s, ... But we've become complacent. We have to draw people's attention to it and refocus.”
David Harris
“determined to do the right thing, but in a pragmatic way. We defended human rights.”
Madeleine Albright
