Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others"

Coretta Scott King, Activist

"In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"Small use it will be to save democracy for the race, if we cannot save the race for democracy"

Jeanette Rankin, Politician

"In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there"

Herman Hesse, Author

"No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity"

Don King, Celebrity

"It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow"

James Larkin, Activist

"Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future"

Mark Foley, Politician

"Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe"

Iris Chang, Historian

"Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense"

Catharine MacKinnon, Activist

"Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien"

Iris Chang, Historian

"If the conditions were right, there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly"

Iris Chang, Historian

"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority"

Diane Watson, Politician

"I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation"

Coretta Scott King, Activist

"Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above"

Czeslaw Milosz, Poet

"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible"

Barbara Deming, Author

"To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status"

Catharine MacKinnon, Activist

"There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out"

Iris Chang, Historian

"It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform"

Bob Inglis, Politician

"If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography, and then go look for them other places in the world"

Catharine MacKinnon, Activist

"The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on Earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto Treaty"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Obviously, any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin"

Ann Robinson, Actress

"The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens"

Arlen Specter, Politician

"The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I mean, the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed"

Edna O'Brien, Novelist

"You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being"

Frances Wright, Writer

"The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

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