Human Rights Act Quotes

#1. We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act ... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

Theresa May

#2. I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

Theresa May

#3. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]

Nelson Mandela

#4. It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.

Teri Reynolds

#5. Spirituality is human equality. Spirituality is human rights. They are one and the same thing," Lord Fire replied "To act as if you are religious or spiritual whilst treating other people unequally or as an inferior means you are nothing but a fraud."

Book 5 - The King of Control

M.C. Rooney

#6. The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.

Niklas Zennstrom

#7. Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

Ronald Reagan

#8. We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.

Julian Assange

#9. Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

Matthew Lesko

#10. Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.

Ali Sina

#11. The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

Eric Ries

#12. It was like the time he'd failed algebra and felt so relieved, so free: failure was definite, a certainty, and there is always peace in certainties.

Truman Capote

#13. Books have played a role in almost every one of the world's great civil and human rights movements, but only because people who read them decided to act. Reading brings with it responsibility.

Will Schwalbe

#14. Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation? (CIA Document, Project ARTICHOKE, MORI ID 144686, 1952)
As cited by Dr Ellen P. Lacter, p57

Orit Badouk Epstein

#15. I think the way we played was as important as winning the title, the way we did it with the players and the fans enjoying it.

Manuel Pellegrini

#16. I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

Kaz Cooke

#17. Health is a human necessity; health is a human right

James Lenhart

#18. Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.

Harriet Rubin

#19. Young hearts too often have tunnel vision.

K.J. Farnham