Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan, to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community"

Said Musa, Statesman

"The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium"

Robert Trout, Journalist

"One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind"

Thomas S. Monson, Clergyman

"Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"I never threatened him, and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head"

Rafic Hariri, Statesman

"In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible"

Silvan Shalom, Politician

"So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy"

Witold Pilecki, Soldier

"We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"One in 5 Americans is touched by the Red Cross every single year"

Robert Brady, Politician

"You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet"

Paul Kagame, Statesman

"In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background"

Mario Lopez, Actor

"Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another"

Frank Pittman

"The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children"

Kevin Eubanks, Musician

"We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve"

Linda Lingle, Politician

"Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away"

Charles Tupper, Statesman

"I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker"

Ana Castillo, Novelist

"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it, I think it could do more good"

John Pomfret

"Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law"

John Yoo, Educator

"The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo"

John Yoo, Educator

"I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum"

Karen Duffy, Actress

"Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks"

John Yoo, Educator

"Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions"

John Yoo, Educator

"There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can"

Raul Julia, Actor

"Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections"

Suzanne Fields, Writer

"And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"It sometimes suits the slaveholders to claim that their slavery is an exclusively state concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"To say that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey is nonsense"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide"

Kendrick Meek, Politician

"In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list"

Kendrick Meek, Politician

"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

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