Warren Christopher Quotes

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy.

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

Stability is a reasonable foreign policy goal, but not at the expense of human rights.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

The rights of human beings also constitute America's vital interests.

The promotion and preservation of human rights can and should be the driving force for world affairs.

South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.

I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is part of a broad effort to use our great power and our tremendous influence in the service of creating a better world, a world in which human beings can live in peace, in freedom, and with their basic needs adequately met.

I care about people's human rights and, as a country, we have a very proud record indeed. But I'm also realistic about what we can do... we can raise those issues with leaders and we can talk about those issues, and we do that.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

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

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

Human rights are being exalted over victory.

The United Nations is an organization of sovereign states, but the rights that it upholds belong to individuals.

You cannot have individual foreign policy. You cannot have celebrity foreign policy.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

All the problems that fall to the League may ultimately be reduced to one - that of man, and the dignity of man.

Human Rights

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people - they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.

Human rights are being violated in so many places. But we don't give up because we know respect for human rights and human dignity is a basic condition for peace.