Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards"

John Hutton, Educator

"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country"

Michael Ondaatje, Author

"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country"

John Burns, Activist

"Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society"

Michael Novak, Philosopher

"We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process"

Luis Gutierrez, Politician

"In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes"

Michael Ondaatje, Author

"There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied, and the butchery of negroes should have ceased"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in Lower Manhattan"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone, I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them, it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail!"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude, which it would seem ungenerous to withhold"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing"

Alan Paton, Novelist

"If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights"

Edward Koch, Politician

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