Defending Human Rights Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I think what I reacted to so strongly when I first saw 'Pinocchio' was that I identified with the character so strongly. The movie takes you on a whole journey, a rollercoaster of emotions, and that sometimes means some very scary places. But in the end, it comes out okay.

Chris Buck

#3. We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.

Ronald Reagan

#4. Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

Margaret Thatcher

#5. There is no such thing as a dead language, only a dead lay that's a little too quiet for my tastes.

Scott Jonathan Nixon

#6. People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

L'Wren Scott

#7. At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

Armstrong Williams

#8. I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

Joseph McCabe

#9. A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

Adrien Brody

#10. I could never belong to anyone who lies to me and doesn't respect who I am.

Christa Tomlinson

#11. This will never leave me: that I had love and love died; a photo and a piece of tape is not much, I have learned late, but give me 14 days or 14 years, I will kill any man who would touch or take whatever's left.

Charles Bukowski

#12. I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

Esther Rolle