Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people, but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza, they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"The state of slavery is in its own nature bad"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon"

Luc Montagnier, Scientist

"Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically?"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"We're also the only country that has the death penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?"

Tony Randall, Actor

"Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt, which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt"

Roger Wicker, Politician

"When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"As a member of Congress, I believe it is the responsibility of those elected to represent the people at every level of government to ensure that our government works to ensure that every person who wants gainful employment has it"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded"

Susan George, Activist

"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that"

Susan George, Activist

"I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life"

George Wald, Scientist

"The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction"

Susan George, Activist

"Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy"

David Korten, Activist

"In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"In choosing global corporate partners, UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

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