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Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
Buzz Aldrin
Rights
Problems
Will
Human Rights
Somewhat
Come
Always
Years
Exist
Human
Maybe
Lessen
I believe it is possible to bring an end to mass incarceration and birth a new moral consensus about how we ought to be responding to poor folks of color and a consensus in support of basic human rights for all. But it is going to take some work.
Michelle Alexander
Work
Rights
Human Rights
Believe
Birth
Ought
Responding
Possible
Moral
Folks
Some
About
Color
Take
Support
Mass
New
How
End
Going
Human
Poor
Incarceration
Basic
Basic Human Rights
Bring
Consensus
Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.
Michelle Alexander
Education
History
Rights
Economic Development
Training
World
Police
Job
Nation
Human Rights
Our
Stripped
System
Job Training
Has-Been
Unprecedented
Civil
Born
Economic
Investing
Development
Budgets
Arrested
Prisons
Been
Human
While
Billions
World History
Basic
Millions
Treatment
I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'
Bradley Whitford
Terrorism
Rights
World
Military
Human Rights
Would
Solution
Would-Be
Guy
He
Safest
Said
Israel
Israeli
Issues
Were
Heard
Human
Place
Interesting
Speaking
Palestinian
Terrorist groups share an agenda of authoritarianism, misogyny, and intolerance. They are an affront to the common values encapsulated in the U.N. Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Antonio Guterres
Rights
Values
Human Rights
Intolerance
Charter
Share
Terrorist
Authoritarianism
Affront
Human
Common
Common Values
Declaration
Agenda
Groups
Universal
When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people - they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.
Antonio Guterres
Rights
Dignity
People
World
Achieve
Will
Build
Human Rights
All People
Human
Just
Sustainable
Human Dignity
Peaceful
We want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined in the U.N. Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance, and solidarity.
Antonio Guterres
Justice
Respect
Peace
Rights
World
Values
Tolerance
Human Rights
Our
Defined
Enshrined
Solidarity
Charter
Human
Children
Want
Inherit
There is increasing recognition that violence against women is a major barrier to the fulfilment of human rights and a direct challenge to women's inclusion and participation in sustainable development and sustaining peace.
Antonio Guterres
Peace
Rights
Women
Challenge
Sustainable Development
Human Rights
Increasing
Recognition
Direct
Development
Participation
Major
Human
Sustainable
Sustaining
Against
Fulfilment
Barrier
Inclusion
Violence
If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
Mos Def
Rights
Welfare
Islam
Human Rights
Earth
Sole
Strongest
Advocate
Human
Anywhere
Interest
Mankind
Then
We believe that human rights always applies to the majority, who should have its rights protected. When people demonstrate and go to the streets, they deprive the majority from earning a living.
Mahathir Mohamad
Rights
People
Human Rights
Believe
Living
Earning
Protected
Majority
Always
Demonstrate
Go
Human
Deprive
Should
Who
Streets
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
Gerry Adams
Day
Patience
Rights
Eyes
Battle
Equality
Key
Political
Will
Face
Matters
Human Rights
Our
Open
Like
Institutions
Obviously
Because
Deals
How
Issues
Tested
Political Institutions
Up
Human
Republican
Unionism
Lets
Wide
We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
Ferdinand Marcos
Rights
Human Rights
Seeks
Support
Policy
Quarrel
Human
I love music; I love performance. I love everything revolving around art. But I also am really passionate about politics and human rights and science and the environment. Those are things that fascinate me.
Lauren Jauregui
Love
Politics
Music
Art
Me
Rights
Science
Human Rights
Everything
Those
About
Environment
Performance
Also
Around
Am
Passionate
Revolving
Human
Really
Fascinate
Things
I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.
Ban Ki-moon
Peace
Rights
Goals
Human Rights
State
Our
Secretary
Shared
Development
Towards
Look
Partnership
Closely
Human
Working
Forward
Strengthening
Kerry
As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
Ban Ki-moon
Work
Hope
Rights
People
Human Rights
Thinking
Meet
Our
Relief
See
About
Life-Saving
Development
Term
How
Am
Continue
Expectations
Flag
Blue
Human
Banner
Hard
Who
Prepare
Peacekeeping
Humanitarian
Second
Millions
Millions Of People
Second Term
By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.
Ban Ki-moon
Rights
World
Three
Build
Human Rights
United Nations
Our
Security
More
Generations
Development
Prosperous
Pillars
Human
Just
Nations
Succeeding
Peaceful
United
Strengthening
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
Barbara Mikulski
Rights
World
Military
Human Rights
Unacceptable
Must
Highest
Know
Conduct
America
Human
Anything
Holds
Less
Standards
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
Rights
Fight
Focus
Human Rights
Other
AIDS
Finding
Put
Cure
Human
Against
Things
Two
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
Ai Weiwei
Art
Creative
Rights
World
Passion
Impossible
Human Rights
Society
Imagination
Independent
Pretence
Totalitarian
Individual
Freedoms
Calls
Does
Exist
Itself
Art World
Human
Anything
Chinese
Create
Violates
Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful. Barack Obama came to China and he is probably the only president of the United States never to mention the words 'human rights' in public.
Ai Weiwei
Economic Crisis
Change
Rights
Words
Human Rights
Think
President
States
Crisis
Obama
See
Only
Economic
Mention
Never
He
Clear
Since
Attitudes
Global
Came
Began
Human
Pitiful
China
Barack
Barack Obama
Public
United
United States
If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
Emma Thompson
Food
You
Rights
Women
Whatever
Human Rights
Must
Shelter
Provide
Human
Want
Them
Then
Basic
Basic Human Rights
Need
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.
Muhammad Yunus
Education
Health
Food
Rights
People
Try
Human Rights
Considered
All Nations
Accepted
Shelter
Insured
Items
List
Human
Nations
Which
Bill
Bill Of Rights
Many
Right
Societies
Business has a responsibility and opportunity to be the driving force for the advancement of universal human rights.
Paul Polman
Business
Rights
Opportunity
Responsibility
Human Rights
Driving
Driving Force
Advancement
Force
Human
Universal
Business must go on reiterating its absolute commitment to embedding human rights in all it does, driving industry change through collaboration with governments, international organizations, and each other.
Paul Polman
Business
Change
Rights
Commitment
Human Rights
Other
Collaboration
Must
Absolute
Through
Driving
Industry
Does
Go
Governments
Human
Organizations
International
Each
I've always felt very strongly about human rights for blacks, women, and gays. Our Constitution is about equality for all - that's got to mean something to all of us.
Valerie Harper
Constitution
Rights
Women
Equality
Human Rights
Gays
Our
About
Blacks
Strongly
Something
Felt
Always
Got
Very
Human
Mean
Us
We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Democracy
Respect
Rights
Human Rights
Call
Human
Turkey
Europe
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