Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe, or genocide in Turkey, or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"I can't think of anything off the top of my head, that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying"

Elliott Smith, Musician

"While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me"

Ginny B. Waite

"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through"

Daniel Ellsberg, Celebrity

"I'm very close to the pro-life movement"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death"

John Linder, Politician

"When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with Social Security. She is America"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from: when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them"

Howard Coble, Politician

"Television, although it's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race"

David Wilmot, Activist

"Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the Genocide Convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another"

Jon Corzine, Politician

"We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents"

Ginny B. Waite

"'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide"

Jon Corzine, Politician

"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform"

Chuck Hagel, Politician

"Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people"

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation"

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Statesman

"But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility, in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

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