Kerry Kennedy Quotes

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

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.

I care about people's human rights and, as a country, we have a very proud record indeed. But I'm also realistic about what we can do... we can raise those issues with leaders and we can talk about those issues, and we do that.

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

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

Sooner of later, universal human rights will include the right not to be killed by the government.

The promotion and preservation of human rights can and should be the driving force for world affairs.

Anyone who classifies his grievances under the label of ‘human rights’ violations, those grievances can then be brought into the United Nations and be discussed by people all over the world. For as long as you call it ‘civil rights,’ your only allies can be the people in the next community, many of whom are responsible for your grievance.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.

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.

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.

I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.