Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica, and those people were never provided"

Alex Morrison, Soldier

"I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience"

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician

"We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world"

Kjell Magne Bondevik, Statesman

"Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence"

Kjell Magne Bondevik, Statesman

"Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people, and we can now do even more"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries"

Kjell Magne Bondevik, Statesman

"Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur, we do, fortunately, have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Terrorism is contempt for human dignity"

Kjell Magne Bondevik, Statesman

"We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples, and also do our best to help them move to better times"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society"

Kjell Magne Bondevik, Statesman

"No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred, have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied"

John L. Lewis, Leader

"The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women"

Betty Ford, First Lady

"Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978, I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked"

Thomas Babington, Poet

"Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction"

Thomas Babington, Poet

"This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"Do not deprive them of rights and advantages which they valued and enjoyed before you came, and which were in accordance with justice and equity, without making it clear to them that you give them their equivalent. The sense of justice is as keen in the African as in any one else"

Edward Wilmot Blyden, Author

"Literacy stands at the heart of the 2030 Agenda. It is a foundation for human rights, gender equality, and sustainable societies"

Ban Ki-moon, Diplomat

"This prize was given not to me as a person, but to me as a representative of the Belarusian civil society, of the millions of Belarusians who expressed will and desire for democracy, for freedom, for human rights, for changing this stale situation in Belarus"

Ales Bialiatski, Activist

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