Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"To the people here, we are outsiders, foreigners"

Roberto Clemente, Athlete

"The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians"

Geronimo, Statesman

"The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small"

Richard Mentor Johnson, Politician

"And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings"

Julian Bond, Activist

"Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life"

Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician

"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality"

Mathieu Kerekou, Politician

"I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year"

Julian Bond, Activist

"I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness"

William Weld, Politician

"Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human"

Clancy Brown, Actor

"Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Grossing Out dealt with the Western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries"

Terry Southern, Writer

"The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters"

Robert Reich, Economist

"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples,. He needs such murders and such sacrifices"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"The restriction of religion to private life, therefore, does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

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