“It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
“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
“determined to do the right thing, but in a pragmatic way. We defended human rights.”
Madeleine Albright
“We determined some time ago that it was not a good idea to link human rights and trade, and that we actually make better progress with both when they are not linked,”
