Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform"

John Negroponte, Diplomat

"Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries"

John Negroponte, Diplomat

"It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous"

John Negroponte, Diplomat

"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, because you white men always do!"

Roland Joffe, Director

"We can't be silent when people are suffering"

Ilhan Omar, Congressman

"Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons"

John Walsh, Entertainer

"Saving a life overrides territories"

Ovadia Yosef, Clergyman

"It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street"

Sun Ra, Musician

"My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico"

Gloria Trevi, Musician

"Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it"

Anna Sewell, Writer

"The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps"

Patrick Macnee, Actor

"By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too"

Annette Bening, Actress

"Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens"

Sheldon Jackson, Politician

"We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation"

Peter Krause, Actor

"We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors"

Glenn Close, Actress

"My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India"

George Woodcock, Writer

"Baseball regards us as sheep"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away"

Ann Rule, Writer

"During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million"

Witold Pilecki, Soldier

"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages"

John Yoo, Educator

"February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification"

Thomas Day, Author

"To no human charter am I indebted for my rights"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"It was part of your religion to hate the British"

Rebecca H. Davis, Writer

"We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people"

Evan Bayh, Politician

"We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet"

John Lynch, Politician

"The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her"

Laura Innes, Actress

"I am Roe"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe"

James Inhofe, Politician

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