Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we as a people assume responsibility?

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

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.

The new republic should be based on diversity respect and equal rights for all.

Instead in the absence of respect for human rights science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Where the people possess no authority their rights obtain no respect.

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go as I say more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

For this reason the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

Live with integrity respect the rights of other people and follow your own bliss.

First and foremost I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity rights and respect.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

Nations are equal in respect to each other and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government religion or manners.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement in the overwhelming virtue of diversity these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture religion or tradition propagates.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Yes I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King precisely at the moment of his assassination was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights we'll be called a democracy.

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.

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports the arts the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people labor's rights and the fight for peace.

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

We remain at peace with all nations and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.