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"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me"
Benazir Bhutto, Leader
"I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections"
Benazir Bhutto, Leader
"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"
Giovanni Morassutti, Actor
"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together!"
Margaret Atwood, Novelist
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented"
Elie Wiesel, Novelist
"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
Jose Saramago, Writer
"One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all"
Abba Eban, Diplomat
"Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world"
Norman Borlaug, Scientist
"The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school"
Grace Abbott, Activist
"I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body"
Calvin Klein, Designer
"In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks"
Chris Patten, Politician
"Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible"
Gary Johnson
"Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women"
Stephen Lewis, Politician
"I'm in favor of immigration, but we also need rules"
Gary Ackerman, Politician
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite"
Nelson Mandela, Statesman
"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all"
Nelson Mandela, Statesman
"In my country we go to prison first and then become President"
Nelson Mandela, Statesman
"When I was outed, it was like, That's done"
Billie Jean King, Athlete
"The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead"
Donald Trump, Businessman
"America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings"
Barack Obama, President
"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights"
James Madison, President
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"People can be slave-ships in shoes"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
"For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
"As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world"
Charles Darwin, Scientist
"There are three rape scenes that I've had to act in, and none of them have gotten to film. I don't think it's something that should be promoted in any way"
Joan Severance, Actress
"If we must die, we die defending our rights"
Sitting Bull, Statesman
"Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also"
Sitting Bull, Statesman
"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time"
John Berger, Artist
"When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans"
Ulrich Beck, Sociologist
"The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control"
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge
"Yet, food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders, despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry"
Norman Borlaug, Scientist
"Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected"
Samuel Gompers, Activist
"No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money"
Samuel Gompers, Activist
"The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected"
William O. Douglas, Judge
"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces"
Richard Perle, Public Servant
"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them"
John Charles Polanyi, Scientist
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