#human right

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#american experience #basic #basic human rights #citizens #experience

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former. ↗

— Max Baucus

#been #china #critical #former #human

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees. ↗

— John Bruton

#common #democracy #freedom #guarantee #guarantees

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#basic #care #die #disease #exactly

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#human #human rights #medically #only #right

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

— Charlotte Bunch

#becomes #effort #end #good #good idea

Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#bay #began #captured #combatants #complained

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#allowed #basic #basic human rights #blacks #cruelty

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#civil #civil rights #creation #gone #human

We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on. ↗

— Julian Assange

#anyone #effort #engage #groups #harm