“building reconciliation between ethnic groups, issues of human rights, more tolerance and commitment to democratic human rights values.”
Mary Robinson
“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
“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
“We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extermination of human rights.”
Dan Quayle
“Opportunity means advancing American values in the world by protecting human rights, meeting human needs, and opening global markets.”
Joseph Lieberman
“This won't at all, of course, affect our commitment to human rights issues in and outside of the United Nations. We'll continue to pursue them.”
James Cunningham
