“the human rights situation in China is suddenly going to turn around overnight...but it will be an important contribution to the kind of change we all want to see.”
Alex Neve
“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
“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
“There's a human rights component. It involves national security, civil rights, the future of our economy ? a whole international and geopolitical component.”
Paul Ortiz
“Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.”
Vladimir Putin
