“You can be proud of our forces, ... Our forces ... respect human rights.”
Bayan Jabr
“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail”
Abraham Lincoln
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”
Jimmy Carter
“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
“As western governments improve relations with Libya, they should press the government to improve its respect for human rights. Libya's cooperation in fighting terrorism should not mean carte blanche to commit abuse.”
Kenneth Roth
“We're a democratic country, respectful of human rights, that is threatened by wild people who have no respect for human rights, who blow up buses, who blow up airplanes, who can blow up entire buildings,”
Benjamin Netanyahu
