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"We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever"
Phil Donahue, Entertainer
"I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that"
Phil Donahue, Entertainer
"All the big powers, they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty, it must be transformed"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice"
Bryant H. McGill, Author
"Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino"
Lisa Bonet, Actress
"The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
"The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this, we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
"Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life"
James A. Garfield, President
"You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics, which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in"
Arundhati Roy, Novelist
"Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?"
Arundhati Roy, Novelist
"I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading"
Arundhati Roy, Novelist
"Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?"
Arundhati Roy, Novelist
"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics"
Heinrich Heine, Poet
"If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness"
Huey Newton, Activist
"The poor despise labor when performed by slaves"
George Mason, Statesman
"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind"
George Mason, Statesman
"Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes"
George Mason, Statesman
"Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds"
George Mason, Statesman
"No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"Humanity's become a product, and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"All oppression creates a state of war"
Simone de Beauvoir, Writer
"If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?"
Jim Hightower, Activist
"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think it's wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people"
Jimmy Carter, President
"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts"
Jimmy Carter, President
"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood"
Jimmy Carter, President
"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants"
Jimmy Carter, President
"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America"
Jimmy Carter, President
"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better"
Marian Wright Edelman, Activist
"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess"
A. Philip Randolph, Activist
"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you"
Marian Wright Edelman, Activist
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