Enes Kanter Quotes

There is no military government on earth that does not have human rights abuses.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

That's one of the things that I'm going to talk about, is the need for the Human Rights Council to actually deal with human rights. We've got countries on the Human Rights Council right now like Venezuela and Cuba.

I am waiting for the day when the German Bundestag debates the violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia.

It is good that the Canadians are raising the flag among Western countries to raise the issue of human rights abuse throughout the Middle East.

Human rights in China should absolutely play a role in broader U.S. policy toward China. When we look the other way on fundamental issues of human rights, we are also responsible.

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against humanity. Al Jazeera is giving me the opportunity to tell important stories and stories that I want to tell.

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

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

Fidel Castro has killed more people than we even know …. Fidel Castro uses medicine and food to suppress his people.

Sooner of later, universal human rights will include the right not to be killed by the government.

You have been adopted by Amnesty. That proves you are a subversive. Amnesty only adopts [the cases of] subversives.

There is a terrible price the U. S. Government must pay when it associates itself … intimately with a repressive regime.

There were 40,000—45,000 people killed. They were no less important than I am. I want to bring Habre to justice. I can name names and clear up many things. I am ready to face justice as well for what I have done …. During the night, prisoners were executed discretely …. I knew that everyone I arrested would be tortured.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

More attention should be given to the Arab world and the human rights abuse that is taking place every day in many countries in the Arab world.

The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.

North Korean defectors who speak out against the regime always feel nervous. We never know what the North Korean government is planning. It's really difficult for us to show our faces and speak out, but we feel obligated to do something to inform people about the ongoing tragedy inside North Korea.

North Korea is not the dictator's country; it's 25 million citizens' country, and they are suffering under the dictator. North Koreans are really nice, kind, pure people. I hate the dictator and the regime, but I love my home country.

I myself hate the communist North Korean system. That doesn't mean I should let the people in the North suffer under an oppressive regime.