#human right

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#community #different #different faiths #faith #faiths

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#anything #conduct #highest #highest standards #holds

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#cast #casts #commission #committee #disarmament

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#born #both #britain #british #circumstances

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#also #contrary #essential #general #grafted

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#around #human #human rights #influence #rights

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#anyway #call #herself #human #human rights

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

— Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

#fundamental principle #human #human rights #idea #islamic

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#human #human rights #law #response #rights