Breyten Breytenbach Quotes

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture … and we are leading this fight by example.

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

I care about people's human rights and, as a country, we have a very proud record indeed. But I'm also realistic about what we can do... we can raise those issues with leaders and we can talk about those issues, and we do that.

Sooner of later, universal human rights will include the right not to be killed by the government.

We need to know how taxpayer dollars are being used to support torture and human rights abuses.

The promotion and preservation of human rights can and should be the driving force for world affairs.

Torture is not a thing we can tolerate.

There should be a single standard in the world for human rights.

Stability is a reasonable foreign policy goal, but not at the expense 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.

Those who still believe the United Nations is a human rights organization with the best of intentions are kidding themselves.

Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality - doing so also serves our national security interests.

Big global players like China need to do a better job of respecting human rights.

The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.

You don't need a passport to work on human rights.

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights.

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against humanity. Al Jazeera is giving me the opportunity to tell important stories and stories that I want to tell.

Liberals have been committed to the principles of human rights, international stability, and international justice. They have also sought international solutions to those problems which have demanded collective attention.