Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"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

"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

"The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for"

Peter Benenson, Lawyer

"Tell the Government, our people shall not starve"

Ellen Wilkinson, Politician

"Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews"

Jack L. Warner, Businessman

"The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity"

U Thant, Statesman

"With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying"

Frederick Law Olmsted, Architect

"I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever"

Jeb Bradley, Politician

"This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears"

John Culberson, Politician

"Well, in the end, the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case"

Helen Clark, Statesman

"The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county"

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Politician

"We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs"

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Royalty

"There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention"

Robert Bourassa, Politician

"Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time"

Marcia Wallace, Actress

"I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realize it at the time"

Lynndie England, Criminal

"No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction"

Tim Holden, Politician

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

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Iran has a dismal record on human rights"

Howard Berman, Politician

"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

"It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market"

Cynthia McKinney, Politician

"We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality"

Wallace Shawn, Actor

"I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines, and holding hands... That wasn't me"

Solomon Burke, Musician

"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

"I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns"

Jeff Bingaman, Politician

"I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname"

Jack K. Cooke, Businessman

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

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse"

Mary Garden

"The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"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

"Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice"

Peter Benenson, Lawyer

"It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters"

Peter Benenson, Lawyer

"Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

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