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

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.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

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

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.