Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues, and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences"

Madeleine Albright, 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

"Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself"

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

"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

"Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man"

William Godwin, Writer

"Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented, but nobody talks about them"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"We ask to be recognized as men"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"I know that my race must change!"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don't think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"The people that live in these districts, they don't want to watch it. They don't want to see their children die, or killing other people. The only people that it is entertainment to are the people in the capital that have been brainwashed and are misguided, and living in a completely unrealistic kind of world"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active"

John Philpot Curran, Public Servant

"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

"This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

"People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice"

Joey Skaggs, Celebrity

"When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"In Hanover Park, they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"In Georgia, where children work day and night in the cotton mills, they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, - what they do to women. It's indefensible"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone, on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo, and what we probably should have done in Rwanda"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

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