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My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
Hans Rosling
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China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.
Hu Jintao
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Gay rights are human rights.


Hillary Clinton
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There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law.
Judith Butler
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When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.
Jimmy Carter
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We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.


Sam Brownback
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I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter
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The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.


Shirin Ebadi
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The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.


Paul Farmer
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As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political purposes no matter what censorship proponents claim to the contrary.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Liu Xiaobo
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The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.


Liu Xiaobo
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At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.


Jimmy Carter
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
Benazir Bhutto
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Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
David Suzuki
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In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.
Alan Dershowitz
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Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
Blake Farenthold
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