Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out"

Barney Frank, Politician

"The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society"

Andrew Vachss, Author

"I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union"

Betty Hill, Celebrity

"The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Indians were frequently off their reservations"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight!"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering"

Anderson Cooper, Journalist

"The vote is the sacred exercise of the power of the citizen"

Maria Corina Machado, Politician

"A strong state is a state that ensures the well-being of its citizens, but also respects the rights of its citizens"

Dmitry Medvedev, President

"According to the Gorean way of looking at things, a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman"

John Norman, Writer

"The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation"

Giuseppe Mazzini, Activist

"God has given you your country as cradle and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother"

Giuseppe Mazzini, Activist

"Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again"

Ruth First, Activist

"I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are"

Ron Wyden, Politician

"Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk"

Paul Sarbanes, Politician

"The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe, can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general"

Jiang Zemin, Leader

"Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

"The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up"

Rene Cassin, Judge

"The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character"

Rene Cassin, Judge

"I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime"

Robert Casey, Politician

"The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights"

Joe Baca, Politician

"The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy"

Silvia Cartwright, Statesman

"The domination of Western values, beliefs, and way of life has angered many from the East and in developing countries"

Silvia Cartwright, Statesman

"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together and produce something that belongs to everyone"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system"

Oskar Schindler, Businessman

"Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race"

Tim Bishop, Politician

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