Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents!"

George Pataki, Politician

"I have nothing against diamonds or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country"

Edward Zwick, Director

"Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"I feel great identification with the developing world"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves"

Abdullah Ibrahim, Musician

"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur"

Bram Fischer, Lawyer

"I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so"

Bram Fischer, Lawyer

"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is, if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality"

Steven Biko, Activist

"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity"

Steven Biko, Activist

"We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I"

David Horowitz, Writer

"There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion"

Emmeline Pankhurst, Activist

"Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member"

Bram Fischer, Lawyer

"You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas"

Bhumibol Adulyadej, Statesman

"Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

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