Sally Field Quotes

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

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

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

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

I've been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

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

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

There is no military government on earth that does not have human rights abuses.

I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.

Those who still believe the United Nations is a human rights organization with the best of intentions are kidding themselves.

Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

Big global players like China need to do a better job of respecting human rights.

Where there are breaches of human rights, you need to speak out about it, no matter where it is.

It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that so many people are denied the most basic human rights.

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

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.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.