Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"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

"Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together"

Marc Forne Molne, Politician

"If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country"

Daniel Ellsberg, Celebrity

"We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools"

Jon Porter, Politician

"If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?"

Richard King, Director

"Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world"

Ginny B. Waite

"The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative"

John Linder, Politician

"I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable, and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in South Georgia"

John Linder, Politician

"From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength"

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency because it does not exist"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like. I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant"

Richard Masur, Actor

"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know, minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected"

Peter Camejo, Businessman

"The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

Frank Norris, Novelist

"Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour"

Arlo Guthrie, Musician

"Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority"

Vic Snyder, Politician

"The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me"

Saffron Burrows, Actress

"We cannot suppose, therefore, that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it"

Mos Def, Musician

"We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty"

Jeremiah Wright, Clergyman

"The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad"

Ted Hughes, Poet

"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

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