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"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general"
John Charles Polanyi, Scientist
"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies"
Wendell Phillips, Activist
"We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places"
Patricia Ireland, Activist
"Step by step, a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode"
Nelson A. Miles, Soldier
"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe"
Dianne Feinstein, Politician
"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther"
Lionel Blue, Clergyman
"I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene"
Marc Ribot, Musician
"It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals"
Julius Streicher, Soldier
"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia"
Phillip Noyce, Director
"We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning"
Raul Grijalva, Politician
"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost"
Jeremiah Wright, Clergyman
"It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person"
Jean Harris, Criminal
"As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea"
Charlotte Bunch, Activist
"I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'"
Bradley Whitford, Actor
"Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law"
Alan Bullock, Historian
"Nothing in socialist doctrine argues for the abuse of power, from Thomas More, to Karl Marx, to Chavez, to Ocasio-Cortez. Historically, however, it has been the case that socialist countries often end up violently suppressing their citizens"
Charlie Kirk, Politician
"It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique"
Billie Jean King, Athlete
"Truth is on the side of the oppressed"
Malcolm X, Activist
"It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men"
Wangari Maathai, Activist
"African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence"
Wangari Maathai, Activist
"When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with"
Wangari Maathai, Activist
"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
"Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure"
Benazir Bhutto, Leader
"Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return"
Benazir Bhutto, Leader
"Southern states in the Confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves"
Corrine Brown, Politician
"As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget"
Corrine Brown, Politician
"Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in the United States"
Corrine Brown, Politician
"This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation"
Corrine Brown, Politician
"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
"Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death"
Heinrich Heine, Poet
"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul"
Emma Goldman, Activist
"I will never regret not denouncing apartheid"
Zola Budd, Athlete
"It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways, equality and freedom of speech are a good thing"
Herodotus, Historian
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much"
Marian Wright Edelman, Activist
"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all"
Maximilien Robespierre, Leader
"The South is very beautiful, but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly"
James Baldwin, Educator
"You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion"
Hillary Clinton, Politician
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