#human rights

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

#cultural #declaration #human #human rights #must

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#before #bishop #commission #expensive #expressing

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#component #every #human #human rights #religion

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#activists #administration #bush #bush administration #camp

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#citizen #confidently #direction #does #fear

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#did #human #human rights #invent #invented

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#generation #happiness #human #human rights #inhabitants

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#been #carry #commitments #democracy #effectively

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues. ↗

— Helen Clark

#human #human rights #interest #international #issues

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

— Eldridge Cleaver

#civil #civil rights #creation #gone #human