Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"I see people detained for simple INS violations"

Sibel Edmonds, Public Servant

"A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the West and Europe"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests"

John Pomfret

"To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... You have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired"

Sam Worthington, Actor

"There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow, and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age"

John Agyekum Kufuor, Statesman

"In Egypt today, most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe"

John Blair, Politician

"It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body"

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

"In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them"

Walter Salles, Director

"I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador"

Raul Julia, Actor

"We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced"

Marc Morial, Politician

"Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference"

Marc Morial, Politician

"We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the West"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound, it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. It's the United States of America"

Al Roker, Entertainer

"But I am Armenian, and I understand what it is to lose a country, and lose a family, and have massacres and genocides, and everything against my people"

Andrea Martin, Actor

"HATE, even if it's making money. Is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood"

Mathieu Kassovitz, Director

"And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in"

John Blair, Politician

"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online"

John Doolittle, Politician

"I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism"

Albert Speer, Criminal

"In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"But when I was doing the KKK, I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan"

Jon Ronson, Journalist

"Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect"

George Bancroft, Historian

"Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation, and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes"

Bob Ney, Politician

"The master's irresponsible power has no such bound"

Fanny Kemble, Actress

"English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment"

William J. Brennan, Jr., Judge

"As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity"

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Statesman

"The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out"

Jane Mayer, Journalist

"But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody"

Jane Mayer, Journalist

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