Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue, and there are passionate views on both sides"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure"

Patty Duke, Actress

"While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"All of a sudden, their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria, and malnutrition"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights; and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants, which is often the definition used for terrorism"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot"

John Prescott, Politician

"With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion, and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States"

Nathan Deal, Politician

"Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!"

Mother Jones, Activist

"In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations"

Curt Weldon, Politician

"Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world"

Jon Porter, Politician

"I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense"

John Hersey, Writer

"It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else, if movies didn't exist"

Richard King, Director

"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life"

Salvatore Quasimodo, Author

"It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community, we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency"

Tom Tancredo, Politician

"For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with"

Ginny B. Waite

"At the time I was arrested, I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in"

Rosa Parks, Activist

"But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

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