Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general"

Angela Davis, Activist

"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"I'm a real American, fight for the rights of every man"

Hulk Hogan, Celebrity

"Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the governments of the world"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything, just so long as they get out of the way"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"This is my homeland! No one can kick me out"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"My greatest triumph is that being a Jew will not be the cause of my death"

Emanuel Tanay, Professor

"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"Anyone will say anything under torture"

George Galloway, Politician

"The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a country hold so dear"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"If Senator Obama becomes pro-life, then I'll consider giving him my vote"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop, but Black people, Latino people, and all people are under attack for different things"

Afrika Bambaataa, Musician

"Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?"

Kate Millett, Activist

"In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property"

Kate Millett, Activist

"Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"If you give me any problem in America, I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"One's religion is one's own possession, and he has a right to it"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

"Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more"

Salma Hayek, Actress

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