Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.
– Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
– Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
– Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.