#human rights

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction. ↗

— Gary Locke

#beijing #china #clear #direction #dissent

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#deny #human #human rights #humanity #people

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#basic human rights #comfort #concerns #country #dignity

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#community #different #different faiths #faith #faiths

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#anything #conduct #highest #highest standards #holds

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#also #contrary #essential #general #grafted

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#around #human #human rights #influence #rights

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#ensuring #freedoms #human #human rights #nobody

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#fight #human #human rights #need #references