#human rights

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. ↗

— Bono

#africa #dignity #equality #facing #here

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

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And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

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The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

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Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#human rights #rights #women