Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"No! On Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority"

Ernestine L. Rose, Activist

"I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children, and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity"

Robert Casey, Politician

"The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation"

Martha Gellhorn, Journalist

"It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them!"

Randy Harrison, Actor

"Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag, and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"Each year, thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way"

Lois Capps, Politician

"The Jew is upset because the nations of the world - the United Nations - lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him"

Meir Kahane, Clergyman

"In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage"

Joe Baca, Politician

"The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner"

Joe Baca, Politician

"All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life"

Joe Baca, Politician

"No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted"

Richard Linklater, Director

"Another part of the global war on terrorism that Canada and the United States are working on together is in helping failed states, states like Afghanistan, where people have no voice"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives"

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Politician

"The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such"

Roy Moore, Judge

"When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why, as a Christian, she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country"

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Politician

"If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail"

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Politician

"I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself"

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Politician

"It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected"

Randy Harrison, Actor

"Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government"

Marty Meehan, Politician

"In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen"

Martha Gellhorn, Journalist

"To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave"

Denis Kearney, Politician

"A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one"

Leon Jouhaux, Leader

"When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines"

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Politician

"Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored"

Major Owens, Politician

"You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform"

Steve Israel, Politician

"Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about"

Steve Israel, Politician

"People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted"

Richard Attenborough, Actor

"Well, they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something"

Richard Attenborough, Actor

"Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago"

Meir Kahane, Clergyman

"We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

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