Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"In taking action, we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century"

Louis Finkelstein, Clergyman

"The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe"

Linda Chavez, Author

"The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity"

Richard Lugar, Politician

"Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea"

Ari Fleischer, Public Servant

"Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism"

Gordon Smith, Politician

"Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries"

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei, Politician

"The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground"

Harry Hay, Celebrity

"We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform"

Mike Farrell, Actor

"I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence"

Linda Chavez, Author

"And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon"

John Bright, Politician

"I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture"

Gyorgy Legeti, Writer

"What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement"

David E. Price, Politician

"Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution"

Viktor Yushchenko, Statesman

"If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms"

Abdolkarim Soroush, Philosopher

"Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others"

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Politician

"Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently"

Harry A. Blackmun, Judge

"They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high"

Gregory Hines, Actor

"And I used to go the punk clubs, such as a gay club in Poland Street, that everyone would go to, because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless"

Gary Numan, Musician

"Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend"

David Irving, Author

"Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws"

Cynthia Payne, Celebrity

"We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world"

Grace Paley, Writer

"State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics"

Eleanor Clift, Journalist

"Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?"

Cynthia Payne, Celebrity

"We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy"

Bulent Ecevit, Politician

"Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress"

Dick Thornburgh, Politician

"One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion"

Charles E. Merrill, Businessman

"If Mr. Ware does not want Republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once"

Charles E. Merrill, Businessman

"Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement"

Brent Musburger, Celebrity

"I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant while under their noses women are living like slaves"

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Politician

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