Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone"

Richard Linklater, Director

"I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way"

Norman Lamm, Educator

"In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism"

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Politician

"Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power"

Major Owens, Politician

"In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries"

Rene Cassin, Judge

"Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life, which should be protected"

Robert Casey, Politician

"I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests"

Lois Capps, Politician

"What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty"

Jung Chang, Writer

"Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship"

Joe Baca, Politician

"Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance"

Ron Davies, Politician

"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue"

Mary Antin, Activist

"At Leeds, the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition"

Leon Jouhaux, Leader

"I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct"

Sandra Bernhard, Actress

"If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you"

Roy Moore, Judge

"There wasn't anti-Semitism in France"

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Politician

"Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy"

Jim Costa, Politician

"White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!"

George Lincoln Rockwell, Activist

"The fact is that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid"

Meir Kahane, Clergyman

"Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place; they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them"

Denis Kearney, Politician

"Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform"

Dave Reichert, Politician

"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp"

George Takei, Actor

"But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful"

George Takei, Actor

"The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons"

Diane Abbott, Politician

"The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world"

Diane Watson, Politician

"As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians"

Daniel Akaka, Politician

"Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm"

James Otis, Lawyer

"Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right"

James Larkin, Activist

"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"During the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years"

Boy George, Musician

"Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay"

Gary Miller, Politician

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