Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated"

Catharine MacKinnon, Activist

"For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction"

Iris Chang, Historian

"The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied"

George Catlin, Artist

"All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away"

Barbara Deming, Author

"I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies"

Tommy Kirk, Actor

"It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it"

Mark Udall, Politician

"Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent'"

Mark Thomas, Comedian

"As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich"

Arthur Bryant, Historian

"The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations"

Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments"

Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs"

Amy Goodman, Journalist

"Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights"

Rene Cassin, Judge

"Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless"

Robert Casey, Politician

"I'm a big supporter of immigration"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction"

Oliver Tambo, Politician

"When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family"

Jung Chang, Writer

"The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms"

Stjepan Mesic, Statesman

"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around"

Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer

"Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?"

Rene Cassin, Judge

"Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen"

Oskar Schindler, Businessman

"Well, I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship, though"

Tommy Chong, Actor

"And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed"

Lee Harvey Oswald, Criminal

"In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States"

John J. Sweeney, Businessman

"All that I can tell you is that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life"

Ernestine L. Rose, Activist

""Indian policy" has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century"

Russell Means, Activist

"Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president"

Thomas Carper, Economist

"We in the West are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world"

Silvia Cartwright, Statesman

"The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come"

Charles Sumner, Politician

"If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic Party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views"

Robert Casey, Politician

"By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Abortion is a question of choice"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960"

Ruth First, Activist

"While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets, and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment"

Mark Udall, Politician

"Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?"

Mark Thomas, Comedian

"Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama"

Joanna Lumley, Actress

"Pilots are not the threat"

John Pistole, Public Servant

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