Quotes About Human Rights Defenders

#1. Amnesty International, which was opening its yearlong campaign to protect human rights defenders in Colombia in response to the country's horrifying record of attacks against human rights and labor activists and mostly the usual victims of state terror: the poor and defenseless.

Noam Chomsky

#2. Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#3. Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

William Hague

#4. I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

Jason Mewes

#5. The Pilgrims landed the Mayflower at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on a cold November day in 1620 because they were running out of beer.

Susan Cheever

#6. Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

B.W. Powe

#7. One little joke involving hemorrhagic fever and they brand you 'unstable

Michelle Hodkin

#8. We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

John Anderson

#9. I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something.
Sheriff Toots Burns.

Larry McMurtry

#10. To be honest, politics is so weird. I think it's more heavy than religion.

Chris Bosh

#11. I'm really big into yoga, so I go On Demand and look up workouts. I'm all about it.

Mitchel Musso

#12. Ever boy deserves a father.

Jonathan Hickman