What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the...

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When governments talk about imposing their public policies on the Internet, unfortunately they don’t typically mean, ‘Let’s protect human rights, individual rights, let’s guarantee the freedom of the Internet,’

Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply with. The ecumenical taboo_ does not exist in a written document,...

(…) Marx explique que les droits de l’homme sont les droits de l’individu séparé de l’homme (…), c’est l’égoïsme de l’homme bourgeois, qui se meut selon ses intérêts individuels, l’homme séparé de sa communauté, de...

As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when...

We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

At times there’s something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who...

In ActualHuman Rights are”caring” for Humans left on the planet

Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this reason that Marx registers…a vigorous indictment of the anarchist Proudhon… Proudhon in effect...

To disrespect a person made in the image and likeness of God is a lot worse than desecrating a flag. We should be offended and repulsed in the same way when God’s image bearers are...

May you let the authentic colors of your heart illuminate and may you feel the light within others.

Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

For historical reasons, there is still some room for us to improve with respect to human rights.

You have a chance to save lives! If you don’t take it, you may regret it!

It might be depressing, but it’s also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic...

They are specifically contrary to internationally recognized human rights standards, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which China has signed.

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

But the U.S. Record, as assessed by independent organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, is reprehensible.

By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It was a central part of the destruction of slavery in the...

The strategy of putting justice on hold for an elusive peace settlement has emboldened human rights abusers on both sides of the conflict. This approach has fueled a pervasive culture of impunity that has led...

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone...

ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS’ SOULS R BEGGING:HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE

But that’s always a certain way to recognise a facist: when he’s more powerful he kills everything that’s different from him, he uses only brute force while law breaks like glass under his boots. And...

As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was...

[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the...

Nicht nur Menschen, auch Rechtsgrundsätze wurden […] von den Trümmern der Twin Towers erschlagen.

local level communication and uses of it’s human resources are applicable to anywhere in the world.

Teaching and learning religious plurality often ends up privileging religious texts over practice and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and the lived experience of people who shape, situate, and structure these religious texts.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has...

We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just “human rights,” and the idea of dreaming of equality became blasphemous. We are not fighting to tinker with reforming a system that...

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there...

Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father took his bar exam in 1989, I may never know. Perhaps...

Remember, the change you want to see in the world, and in your school, begins with you.

While Europe’s eye is fix’d on mighty things,The fate of empires and the fall of kings;While quacks of State must each produce his plan,And even children lisp the Rights of Man;Amid this mighty fuss just...

The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.

Sexual rights are not only a basic element of human rights but should have an integral part in moves towards Arab reform …

We view his detention for peacefully exercising fundamental freedoms guaranteed by international human rights instruments as a serious step in the wrong direction.

Mexico has taken a very strong and positive stand on human rights issues internationally but there is not the same intensity … domestically,

It seems to me that the greatest triumph of any human rights movement, be it fighting for racial, religious, sexual or gender equality – is to achieve that moment where eyes are opened so wide...

Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university

The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.

The views of the Courts in regard to imprisonment have however undergone modification in the last ten years. Imprisonment is seen more and more as a harsh and drastic punishment to be reserved for callous...

No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!

Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in that, if terror reigned everywhere in the world, but the colonizer enjoys, in...

At a lunchtime reception for the diplomatic corps in Washington, given the day before the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, I was approached by a good-looking man who extended his hand. ‘We once met...