Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research"

Mike Pence, Politician

"I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel"

Eugene McCarthy, Politician

"People are what this election is all about"

Patty Berg, Athlete

"They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for - you profile - you do profiling to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers"

Isaac Yeffet

"I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going"

Nina Simone, Musician

"The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields"

Shirley Temple, Actress

"Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die"

Bono, Musician

"My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world"

Faye Wattleton, Sociologist

"The Roman Catholic Church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?"

Isaac Yeffet

"So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality"

Bono, Musician

"One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights"

James K. Polk, President

"Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression"

James K. Polk, President

"This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet"

Nina Simone, Musician

"Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job, it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq"

Clare Short, Politician

"A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program, and then returning home"

John Shadegg, Politician

"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them"

John Shadegg, Politician

"Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children"

Brian May, Musician

"Being a foreigner is not a disease"

Alden Nowlan, Poet

"The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Every new baby is a blind, desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

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