“Human rights are not a popularity contest. Letting this march proceed is an international obligation. If prejudice is allowed to trump the rights that all citizens should enjoy, then everyone's freedoms are ultimately endangered.”
Scott Long
“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
“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
“There should be an obligation by states to respect human rights. All of this is giving us hope that we will have access to justice.”
Francisco Soberon
