Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Quotes

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.

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

Perhaps at no time in our history had there been such a wholesale violation of civil liberties.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people … the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties.

The right of peaceful assembly is not a Western value. This is a universal right!.

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.

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

The very act of protest is dangerous in Venezuela.

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

During war we imprison the rights of man.

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.

Macau is democratic and free enough.. it's prosperous enough. Why do people need to do this?.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.

When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.

The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has been marching since the beginning of time. Where Martin Luther King started is where Gandhi left off, and where he started, Abe Lincoln left off, and before that Whitfield all the way back to Moses. God has not moved. We have. But it is never too late. We are not at the mercy of these events. We can alter the course of history. We can stand against the dangerous arc of this story. But we need people who are willing to speak truth.

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

The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.

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