#human rights

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

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#blair #consider #human #human rights #jack

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

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions. ↗

— Dorothy Height

#between #civil #civil rights #contradiction #did

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#began #british #campaign #commitment #cross

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#also #democracy #expression #freedom #freedom of expression

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#human #human rights #much #obligations #rights

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#feet #find #force #god #however