Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of \"the Haves\" over the human rights of \"the Have Nots\" is inevitably called into serious question?"

David Korten, Activist

"And most importantly, perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them, and establish how they might work together to address them"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is"

Bill Condon, Director

Bill Condon

"Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

Blanche Lincoln

"In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"When you talk about war on poverty, it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing, then you can show a great deal more of how people are living, and a very great percentage of our people today"

Ben Shahn, Artist

Ben Shahn

"Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation, really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"I think clearly the United States, as well as other Western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement, which had a high profile here, and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat"

Tom Paulin, Poet

"I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country"

Tom Paulin, Poet

"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status"

David Mamet, Dramatist

"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"The environment is not a partisan issue. It's a people issue, and it affects all of us"

Tom McMillan, Politician

Tom McMillan

"Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic"

Stephen Lewis, Politician

"We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation"

Raul Grijalva, Politician

"Black man, you are on your own"

Steven Biko, Activist

Steven Biko

"We have accepted the principle of democracy, and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level"

Stephen Lewis, Politician

"There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia, who would be prostitutes on the streets, if they did not have those jobs"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts"

John Russell, Actor

"She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

"I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

Lisa Marie Presley

"One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

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