“We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extermination of human rights.”
Dan Quayle
“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
“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 are talking about human rights, ... The first human right is to remain alive, and Israel is in danger. We are exercising the most important human right.”
Shimon Peres
“I was going to work for a big corporate defense firm, while Laura was taking a human-rights law fellowship.”
Mark Johnson
Bookmark
