“If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.”
Joichi Ito
“It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.”
“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
