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The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

— Roger Waters

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.

— Adam Hochschild

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

— Harold Pinter

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

— Michelle Bachelet

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

— Harold Pinter

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

— Tony Campolo

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

— John Yoo

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

— Antonio Tabucchi

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.

— Trevor Phillips

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.

— Samuel P. Huntington