Browsing Topic Best Human Rights Quotes

I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my life – and there’s no problem with that.

By only stepping in to name Hamas’ actions, which are condemnable, and refusing to acknowledge the rights of Palestinians, Biden reinforces the false idea that Palestinians instigated this cycle of violence. This is not neutral language. It takes a side, the side of occupation.

I will not support an effort to enable war crimes and human rights abuses and violence. We cannot be talking only about Israelis’ need for safety at a time when Palestinians are living under a violent apartheid system and are dying from what Human Rights Watch has said are war crimes.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

The devastation in Gaza is unconscionable. We must urge an immediate ceasefire. The killing of Palestinians and Israelis must end. We must also take a hard look at nearly $4 billion a year in military aid to Israel. It is illegal for U.S. aid to support human rights violations.

The United States should not be rubber-stamping weapons sales to the Israeli government as they deploy our resources to target international media outlets, schools, hospitals, humanitarian missions and civilian sites for bombing. We have a responsibility to protect human rights.

Critics on the left even have a term for it: ‘PEP.’ Progressive except Palestine. Progressive when it comes to standing up for marginalized minorities at home, or persecuted groups abroad..but not in Israel and the Occupied Territories.

The propaganda machine that comes out of Israel when it comes to the precious humanity of Palestinians is just sad. But it has so much to do with mass complicity. It has to do with The New York Times and The Washington Post, and CNN and MSNBC, and others, not wanting to be truthful about themselves.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

We protested when the Israeli Defense Forces killed more than 2,000 Palestinians in 50 days. Yet Obama replied with words about the difficult plight of police officers … and the additional $225m in financial support of the Israeli army. Obama said not a mumbling word about the dead Palestinian children but he did call Baltimore black youth ‘criminals and thugs’.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

The Palestinians must compromise argument is really just code for the complete erasure of Palestine and Palestinians.

Palestinians have no land to call their own, no autonomy; they have no rights and cannot return to their homes.

So compromise …what?

We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.

NATO is—ultimately—the United States. When the U.S. has intervened in Iraq, in Libya, in so many countries in recent years, why have they not been expelled from the Human Rights Council? Why was that never questioned?

Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, okay? You bring it up because you really care, and I think it’s nice that you care, the rest of us don’t care.

The Islamic Republic of Iran … in accordance with international law … has put unwavering support for the liberation fight and resistance of the Palestinian people aimed at the full realization of their human rights among the planks of its foreign policy.

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn’t acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

There is apparently a blacklist floating around McGill University targeting & doxxing students who work in solidarity with Palestinian human rights & liberation. As an alum of McGill and SPHR – I am not surprised that the University is failing to address this.

America should always stand for human rights and freedom, but not through endless military intervention.

They’re scary motherfuckers to get involved with. We know they killed [Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates.

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned… Everything is war. Me say war. That until the’re no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation… Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significa…nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!

You don’t have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support – just concerning human rights in general.

I want a society free of human trafficking

I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government’s obligation, not just a good idea.

Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.