#human right

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #apartheid #beings #children #classification

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general. ↗

— Jiang Zemin

#also #applied #believe #both #concepts

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#another #calls #defending #even #freedoms

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#human #human rights #much #obligations #rights

And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#everything #going #human #human rights #like

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#governments #human #human rights #pressured #rights

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#also #democracy #destruction #elimination #freedom

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran? ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#benefited #countries #democracies #how #human

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#democracy #development #education #foundation #freedom

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. ↗

— Richard Perle

#does #example #few #for example #france