Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"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

"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

"Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"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

"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

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

Christopher Reeve, Actor

"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

"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

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

Cher, Musician

"Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"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

"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"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

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

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other"

Angela Davis, Activist

"As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression"

Angela Davis, Activist

"I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

Emma Lazarus, Poet

"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

"My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"Above all nations is humanity"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

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