"One cannot fail to notice the inconsistency of those rejecting human rights: their rejection takes place in the public square created by human rights. It is difficult to reject human rights without using them."

— Filip Spagnoli, Making Human Rights Real 🌷

"We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."

— George F. Kennan 🌷

"Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university"

— Khalil Osiris 🌷

"Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing more than coming up with excuses for breaking the diet. Mma Ramotswe was made of sterner stuff than that, and so she persisted."

— Alexander McCall Smith, Blue Shoes and Happiness 🌷

"Health is a human necessity"

— health is a human right 🌷

"At a lunchtime reception for the diplomatic corps in Washington, given the day before the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, I was approached by a good-looking man who extended his hand. 'We once met many years ago,' he said. 'And you knew and befriended my father.' My mind emptied, as so often happens on such occasions. I had to inform him that he had the advantage of me. 'My name is Hector Timerman. I am the ambassador of Argen"

— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir 🌷

"Human Rights directs my path"~ ~ Minnie Estelle Miller 2011"

— Minnie Estelle Miller 🌷

"With "gay marriage," the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexuals finishing what faithless, selfish heterosexuals have begun."

— Orson Scott Card 🌷