#human rights

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights. ↗

— Judith Light

#aids #cure #fight #finding #focus

To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do. ↗

— Judith Light

#celebrity #community #different #different way #gay

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West. ↗

— Aly Khan

#close #concepts #dwell #govern #how

The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be. ↗

— George Weah

#believe #come #control #country #democracy

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. ↗

— Hans Kung

#declaration #essence #ethic #however #human

Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#continued #global #greatest #human #human rights

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#governments #human #human rights #pressured #rights

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#anti-democratic #democratic state #government #human #human rights

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#also #democracy #destruction #elimination #freedom

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. ↗

— William Bennett

#democracy #export #human #human rights #noblest