Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied"

Jeremiah Wright, Clergyman

"We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice"

Marc Maron, Entertainer

"You have to give access to people with disabilities, but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities, and a vast majority of them do"

Richard Masur, Actor

"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"Free trade should not mean free labor"

Stephen F. Lynch, Politician

"And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made"

Tom Scholz, Musician

"There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America"

Arlo Guthrie, Musician

"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political, and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease"

Daniel Barenboim, Musician

"The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of"

Gilbert Murray, Diplomat

"This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different"

Ernie Fletcher, Politician

"When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans"

David Duke, Celebrity

"I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot"

Rachel Corrie, Activist

"The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"Power in America today is control of the means of communication"

Theodore White, Journalist

"UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship"

Nathan Deal, Politician

"As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers"

Stephen F. Lynch, Politician

"To the socialist, no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain is hurled, but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world"

Roger Waters, Musician

"Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?"

Rosalind Russell, Actress

"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"Prior to Roe v. Wade, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq"

Mohamed ElBaradei, Scientist

"We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow"

Marc Forne Molne, Politician

"The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right"

Paul Farmer, Educator

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