Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"Until the year 1967, it was a crime for which you could be put in prison to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally"

Patrick Macnee, Actor

"No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses"

Edward Livingston, Judge

"To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses"

Wavy Gravy, Activist

"Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage"

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Statesman

"Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy"

Mark Poster, Writer

"The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies"

Jonah Goldberg, Celebrity

"We've never been anti-Semitic"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"In and after 1964, when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968, I felt a compelling urge to make my views public"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir"

Fawn Hall, Celebrity

"If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"I don't want my kids going through what I went through - police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey"

John O'Neill, Athlete

"I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder"

Thomas Starr King, Clergyman

"Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists"

Pat Roberts, Politician

"While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high, and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together"

Robert Menendez, Politician

"Even six months later, they have not figured out how do we help the people from the area get housing?"

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Politician

"Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights"

Ron Silver, Actor

"Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased"

Janez Drnovsek, Statesman

"It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq"

John Yoo, Educator

"In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war"

John Yoo, Educator

"Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation"

John Yoo, Educator

"I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars"

Jenny McCarthy, Model

"My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community"

Harry Belafonte, Musician

"I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution,' an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country"

John Paul Stevens, Judge

"Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex, whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking"

Derek Jarman, Director

"The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"I need say no more to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"But although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way"

George Carey, Clergyman

"In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee"

David Dinkins, Politician

"To get involved with a cause, you really have to become aware of it. You have to go on the ground and see with your own eyes the people who have been affected by it, their process in how they're combating it, and what the organization represents"

David Arquette, Actor

"I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area"

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Politician

"This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy"

Thaksin Shinawatra, Politician

"I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel"

Harry Belafonte, Musician

"Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere"

Harry Belafonte, Musician

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