Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
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Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions - and Iraq may be one of them - when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.
On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.
Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.
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