“Turning the Internet over to countries with problematic human-rights records, muted free-speech laws, and questionable taxation practices will prevent the Internet from remaining the thriving medium it has become today.”
John Doolittle
“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
“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail”
Abraham Lincoln
“We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extermination of human rights.”
Dan Quayle
“This unprecedented assault on the work of human rights groups will invariably undermine the rights of all Russians.”
Holly Cartner
“Strengthening democracy and advancing human rights through the establishment of a National Human Rights Commission that will consider the key recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will pave the way forward for Sierra Leone.”
Victor Angelo