Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born?"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity"

Carl Paladino, Politician

"Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export"

Rick Perry, Politician

"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper"

Larry Flynt, Publisher

"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines"

Amartya Sen, Philosopher

"I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen"

Rick Perry, Politician

"For us, the principal work was not to fight against our companeros but with them to change the system for another one, where men and women may have the right of life, work, and of our own organization"

Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Activist

"The Holocaust is - there's nothing comparable to it"

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Politician

"I don't want anyone to go through what I did, and I don't want our country to make the same mistake again. We must always be vigilant against any violation of civil liberties and human rights"

Fred Korematsu, Celebrity

"I never thought of my case as just a civil rights suit. It was about human rights and the Constitution. It was about the principles that our country was founded on"

Fred Korematsu, Celebrity

"My case represents a part of history that is not always acknowledged. It is a reminder that our government is not infallible, and that we must always be vigilant against any abuse of power"

Fred Korematsu, Celebrity

"As an American citizen, I didn't want to be treated as a spy or an enemy alien, or put in a concentration camp simply because of my ancestry"

Fred Korematsu, Celebrity

"If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up"

Fred Korematsu, Celebrity

"Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing, but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America"

Leah Ward Sears, Judge

"The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment"

Howard Baker, Statesman

"My pro-choice activism keeps me busy"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"I thought that the AIVD was there to protect citizens like me"

Theo Van Gogh, Director

"For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food can save lives"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for"

Stephen F. Lynch, Politician

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