Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment"

Kate Millett, Activist

"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that"

Kate Millett, Activist

"I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility"

Kate Millett, Activist

"One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

"The United States is historically a nation of immigrants"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great nation"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens"

Tom Allen, Politician

"But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"We don't care, really, about children as a society, and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times, but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society, and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand!"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them"

Olive Schreiner, Writer

"Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters"

Richard Gere, Actor

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