“The past record of standing back and allowing trade and investment to easily trump the human rights concerns can't stand,”
Alex Neve
“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail”
Abraham Lincoln
“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
“We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extermination of human rights.”
Dan Quayle
“The deep conviction we have is that trade does lead to development, and development does lead to better human rights,”
Pierre Pettigrew
“Iran has not lived up to its international human rights obligations and has not conformed with past U.N. resolutions on this matter. We believe this must change,”
