Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

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

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

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

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"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

"We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"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

"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry, and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama"

Rachel Griffiths, Actress

"Poverty is unnecessary"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"In taking action, we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century"

Louis Finkelstein, Clergyman

"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

"Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"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

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