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"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
"Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees"
Theodor Herzl, Journalist
"But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home"
Theodor Herzl, Journalist
"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing"
Germaine Greer, Activist
"The spirit in which the offer was made must, of necessity, contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based"
Theodor Herzl, Journalist
"Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place"
Theodor Herzl, Journalist
"The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights"
Potter Stewart, Judge
"Group conformity scares the pants off me, because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade"
Bette Midler, Actress
"The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings"
Denis Diderot, Editor
"I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad, because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever, whatever abuses are perpetrated on them"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail"
Tupac Shakur, Musician
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot"
Horace Greeley, Editor
"Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed"
Erica Jong, Novelist
"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies"
Elie Wiesel, Novelist
"No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions"
Paul Tsongas, Politician
"I am certainly a liberal"
Kathleen Turner, Actress
"A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people"
Brad Henry, Politician
"The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman"
Susan B. Anthony, Activist
"Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world"
Edwin Markham, Poet
"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own"
William E. Gladstone, Leader
"We are the world"
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author
"It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose"
Daniel Keys Moran, Writer
"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done"
Whoopi Goldberg, Actress
"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America"
William Howard Taft, President
"We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of Blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities"
Barbra Streisand, Actress
"What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?"
Sitting Bull, Statesman
"They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time!"
Sitting Bull, Statesman
"Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father"
Sitting Bull, Statesman
"There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population"
Moshe Dayan, Soldier
"Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity"
Pope John XXIII, Clergyman
"But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes"
George Crook, Soldier
"The Indian is a human being"
George Crook, Soldier
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