Junot Diaz Quotes

There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights.

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

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.

In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.

The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.

Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.

Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.

The international community could not muster the resources or the will to come to the Rwanda’s aid.

Torture of a person anywhere in the world causes humanity everywhere in the world to suffer.

I refuse to allow human rights to become a slogan to protect terrorists.

Wars are often the cause of further wars because they fuel deep hatreds, create situations of injustice, and trample upon people's dignity and rights. Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile. War is a defeat for humanity. Only in peace and through peace can respect for human dignity and its inalienable rights be guaranteed... .

Human rights enforcement at the international level needs to be handled in a manner similar to the treatment of military aggression under a collective security regime. The violation of human rights in one state must be considered the concern of all, and enforcement mechanisms must provide for a unified response on the part of the entire international community.

We seem to have an obligation to protect if a dictator is going to rapidly kill many of his people on CNN. We do not seem to have the same obligation if he will kill his people slowly and not on CNN.

We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never again.' But these things are still happening. The Amnesty International files are big.

It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution.

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.

The U.S.' refusal to acknowledge the plight of displaced Haitians and maintaining inhumane practices of neglect, disrespect, and violence amounts to a gross violation of human rights.

While supporting human rights in another country is important, fighting for our own safety is crucial.

You don't need a passport to work on human rights.

Countries often prioritise economic interests over human rights - hence all the kowtowing to China.