Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals"

James Inhofe, Politician

"To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"I'm a Republican, by the way"

Charles Evers, Activist

"I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby"

Charles Evers, Activist

"Until fighting ends and there are conditions which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world"

Aslan Maskhadov, Politician

"America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live"

Rick Allen, Musician

"When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights"

William Wells Brown, Activist

"The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves"

William Wells Brown, Activist

"Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"In every decision we make and in every policy we develop, we are committed to protecting those who cannot protect themselves... the very young and the very old"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease"

Roger Moore, Actor

"Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"Poverty is unnecessary"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"Terrorism is not new to black people"

Vernon Jordan, Businessman

"There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them, and flouted the world for so many years"

Karen Hughes, Politician

"I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it lets the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people"

Peter King, Politician

"I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life"

Major Taylor, Athlete

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people"

Harold H. Greene, Judge

"I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich"

Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Composer

"I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled"

Hugh Mackay, Writer

"I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to or live in foreign lands, simply to make a living"

John Agyekum Kufuor, Statesman

"The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another"

George Bancroft, Historian

"When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

"The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting"

William J. Brennan, Jr., Judge

"The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture"

Ed Markey, Politician

"The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country"

Ed Markey, Politician

"I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them"

Peter King, Politician

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