Human Rights Defenders

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

    “Come away, O human child!
    To the waters and the wild
    With a faery, hand in hand,
    For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled—because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
    —Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)