Rene Cassin Quotes

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

Just as we Liberal Democrats opposed the flawed logic of that war in Iraq - we will oppose the flawed government claim that we have to surrender our fundamental rights in order to improve our security.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

The prohibitions of the Constitution were put in place precisely to prevent majority opinion from ruling certain areas of life.

Human rights cannot be conceived from a local perspective, The right to trial of the accused cannot have a meaning which is substantially different from another country.

if any government does not acknowledge the rights of the human person or violates them, it not only fails in its duty, but its orders completely lack juridical force

We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.

My grandfather wanted to remind us that freedom of expression is the fundamental ingredient for democracy, and all the rest is detail. It is the scaffolding around which every other freedom is based.

German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.

I assume that our colleagues from both the United States and the European Union will proceed from current humanitarian law and ensure political freedoms and rights of all people, including those who are living in the territory of Baltic states after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

I think that a person cannot be criminally or otherwise prosecuted, his or her rights cannot be infringed upon the grounds of nationality, ethnicity or sexual orientation in the modern world. It is absolutely unacceptable. And it is not the case in Russia.

Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the Senate, requires more than just a military dimension.

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.

The United States didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created the United States of America. It's the reason we are here today. This is an essential freedom and an essential right and I don't think you give up this right by simply taking a job.

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares - we don't know them." But the current discussion is framed as "When can the President kill an American citizen?" Now in my mind, killing a non-American citizen without due process is just as criminal as killing an American citizen without due process - but whatever gets us to the table to discuss this thing, we're going to take it.

Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.