“If people are displaced due to a development project, then it is a violation of their human rights and a violation by the government of its commitment to observing human rights.”
Miloon Kothari
“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
“Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word ''human.''”
Suzanne LaFollette
“We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extermination of human rights.”
Dan Quayle
“We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.”
Evan Bayh
