Human Rights Instruments

Famous quotes containing the words human, rights and/or instruments:

    He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
    Arthur Miller (b. 1915)

    At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
    Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes—will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
    John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)