Andrew Solomon Quotes

There should be a single standard in the world for human rights.

Abuse of human rights and international law demand resolution - whoever is responsible.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

I can see every monster as they come in.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

We continue to be vigilant.

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

In the dilemma of dealing with terrorists who wish to destroy the society, there is sometimes a conflict between human rights and human life. To me the solution is that human life takes precedent over human rights.

As civilization advances there is a continual change in the standard of human rights.

Guard well Gardez Bien

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

We need to know how taxpayer dollars are being used to support torture and human rights abuses.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjugation of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security. But these, too, as were the phrases of the Covenant, are only words; their value depends wholly on our will to observe and honor them and give them content and meaning. The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act — and if necessary, to suffer and die — for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

I wish for an America no less alert in guarding against dangers from within than it is watchful against enemies from without.

We can have vigilance without fear.

The prohibitions of international law are largely toothless, especially when the abusive governments remain in power. The international community has established criminal tribunals to try abusers, but those who remain in power are ordinarily shielded from prosecution by their governments and its protection.

I'm not guided by what Human Rights Watch says.

It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security interests by ignoring or sidelining human rights.

It's widely recognized that there is no peace without development and no development without peace; it is also true that there is no peace and sustainable development without respect for human rights.

We are not living in the same world we were immediately after the Cold War, when there seemed to be a greater belief in the universality of human rights and there was enough prosperity to make us question why we had not committed more resources to upholding the values we claimed to hold most dear.

If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

It's kind of like, I'm just a guard.