Read more“As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government’s obligation, not just a good idea”
– Charlotte Bunch
Read more“All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign”
– Ban Ki-moon
Read more“Unless men are active allies, we’ll never end violence against women and girls”
– Eve Ensler
Read more“The one thing all children have in common is their rights. Every child has the right to survive and thrive, to be educated, to be free from violence and abuse, to participate and to be heard. ”
– Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Read more“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness”
– Dalai Lama
Read more“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Read more“The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don’t just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it”
– Hugh Jackman
Read more“Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself”
– Robert Green Ingersoll
Read more“Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people’s points of view – these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can’t allow them to delude us to the point where we can’t recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery”
– Sam Harris
Read more“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher”
– Dalai Lama
