Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do, then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do, is engage with poor people in developing countries, and understand what their lives are like, and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to AIDS or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land: those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property, and easy access to markets"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Above all nations is humanity"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness"

Clara Barton, Public Servant

"We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live!"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness"

Christopher Reeve, Actor

"For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people"

Richard Pryor, Actor

"In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

"War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men"

George Ripley, Activist

"This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief"

John Howard, Statesman

"She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried, I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right"

Cher, Musician

"For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"The first less is this: Take it from me, every vote counts"

Al Gore, Vice President

"The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be"

Abba Eban, Diplomat

"This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal"

James Bovard, Author

"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell"

Francois Mauriac, Novelist

"I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic"

Alice Paul, Activist

"It is important to recognize, and politics' positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them"

James Bovard, Author

"The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

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