Violations Quotes

In the course of these contests [the Seminole Wars] the rights of Indian and Negro alike were ruthlessly disregarded. There was redress for neither before the courts, and at the end in dealing with them every honorable principle of men and nations was violated.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

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

To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.

Regulation has crept up on us steadily…. The most alarming feature of this concentration of power in the Federal government is the creation of omnipotent commissions to exercise it. The new fields of Federal control are administered by small Boards or executive commissions, usually appointed by the President and responsible to no one but the President. They are part of the Executive Department. But their function is not executive only. They have two additional functions: one is legislative, the other is judicial. These commissions write the rules which make the laws effective. Then they administer the rules; and when the rules are violated, they it in judgment on the violations.

We don't supply a hundred billion dollars worth of weapons to the war criminals in Saudi Arabia nor do we supply eight million dollars a day to the Israeli army that is also violating international law and human rights.

I would like to address the peoples of the world, especially the Arab peoples and the US people. Their silence over the violations against the oppressed Iraqi people who suffered greatly cannot be accepted by any fair-minded and zealous person. Therefore, all must take these violations seriously and express themselves even through peaceful demonstrations, sit-ins and protests. I urge those people to distance themselves from their rulers who support the West and the occupation forces.

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

I consider the veto power ... to be used only ... to protect the Constitution from violation; secondly, the people from effects of hasty legislation where their will has been probably disregarded or not well understood; and thirdly, to prevent the effects of combinations violative of the rights of minorities.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

It may not have been fair, but it changed history.

Gingrich’s violation of House rules was not an inadvertent error. It was a systematic pattern of deception, carried out with hubris and defiance over several years.

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

Iran has a dismal record on human rights.

I think the United States has a nasty human-rights record.

Human rights groups around the world, certainly sees that Saddam Hussein makes Slobodan Milosevic, who is a war criminal, look like a street thug. I mean, Saddam Hussein wrote the book on Human rights violations.

In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.

China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

Democracy in Myanmar cannot be achieved with discrimination and gross violations of human rights.

We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously. Iran's recent missile test, for example, was a violation of its international obligations.

Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

The N.B.A. provides a big platform to shed light on the human rights violations in Turkey and gives a voice to the thousands of people persecuted.