Human Rights

“We, in Ghana, highly resolve that we will continue to defend democracy and constitutional rule, and uphold human rights.”

“Not pardons, but forced exile.”

“My greatest dream for example was to die at liberty, so that they’d bury me without a number in the head.”

“A human rights activist has to be stubborn… it’s not your dignity, [you’re] fighting for other’s dignity.”

“I think that life where you don’t have dignity and where you don’t fight for people’s dignity is a wasted life.”

“What I want to do is I just want to live freely.”

“I have been guided by the belief that all lives have equal value.”

“Peace, progress, human rights – these three goals are insolubly linked to one another.”

“Every life is irreplaceable.”

“¿Éstos no son hombres?”

“It is very important to impose sanctions because of the repression against the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, the indigenous people of Crimea.”

“Human rights is, in fact, the ultimate political question.”

“For us, the principal work was not to fight against our companeros but with them to change the system for another one, where men and women may have the right of life, work, and of our own organization.”

“I felt compelled to make a film for the people I’d met behind bars. I owed them that film.”

“I am a human rights fighter and I will not give up this fight.”

“Persecution has been occasioned by the defence of the poor.”

“Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.”

“If we can provide affordable and quality healthcare to India, we can provide it to the whole world.”