(475 quotes found)
“None of these difficulties can be invoked by state agents to justify violations of human rights committed in total impunity.”
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
“Opportunity means advancing American values in the world by protecting human rights, meeting human needs, and opening global markets.”
Joseph Lieberman
“a gross violation of human rights.”
Randall Robinson
“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”
Jimmy Carter
“The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.”
Shirin Ebadi
“We must have a full debate and votes on issues such as China's pitiful human rights record, China's brutal suppression of religious freedom, China's increasingly belligerent stance toward the Democratic Chinese government on Taiwan and China's unbroken record of violated agreements one after another on other matters. You can't trust them,”
Jesse Helms
“We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extermination of human rights.”
Dan Quayle
“Human rights are indivisible. Freedom and security are not alternatives, they go hand-in-hand ... Much as the public may dislike it, suspected terrorists have rights.”
Graham Watson
“I would like to remind all French men and French women to gather together to defend human rights, to guarantee the cohesion of the nation and to affirm the unity of the republic,”
Jacques Chirac
“You can be proud of our forces, ... Our forces ... respect human rights.”
Bayan Jabr
