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"One of the speakers asked: How many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand"
Cheryl James, Musician
"Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood"
Coretta Scott King, Activist
"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance, I would do it again!"
Alois Brunner, Criminal
"Many migrants awaiting asylum hearings in the U.S. never show up for their court dates. And the longer they stay in the U.S., the more sympathy they draw in the media and from many compassionate Americans"
Charlie Kirk, Politician
"The Democrats want a pathway to citizenship for the illegal immigrants so they can become Democratic voters in a few years - and some Democrats even argue that non-citizens ought to be able to vote in U.S. elections"
Charlie Kirk, Politician
"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"Poverty is the worst form of violence"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather, it condemns the oppression or persecution of others"
John F. Kennedy, President
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"A man without a vote, is man without protection"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits"
William S. Burroughs, Writer
"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women"
Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer
"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing, and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents"
Barack Obama, President
"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery"
George Washington, President
"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself"
John Locke, Philosopher
"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions"
John Locke, Philosopher
"Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
"Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
"America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts"
James Madison, President
"In republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority"
James Madison, President
"We must have a government that is accountable to the people, not the other way around"
Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President
"I am for people. I can't help it"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
"Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty"
John Adams, President
"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims"
Judith Butler, Philosopher
"Connectivity is a human right"
Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman
"What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
"The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission"
James A. Garfield, President
"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: You have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline"
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author
"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union"
George Mason, Statesman
"Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom"
Jimmy Carter, President
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