Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it"

Arthur Hertzberg, Theologian

"I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery"

Benjamin F. Wade, Politician

"Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland"

Alexander Dubcek, Politician

"In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians"

Alan Hovhaness, Composer

"We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people"

Alexander Mackenzie, Statesman

"My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty"

Ellen Wilkinson, Politician

"These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered"

Philip Hone, Politician

"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects"

Chris Hedges, Journalist

"I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment"

Dorothy Stang, Clergyman

"After mature consideration, it was unanimously agreed that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose"

Charles Lawrence, Politician

"I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed"

George Allen, Politician

"Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado"

Tom McClintock, Politician

"We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one"

Maria W. Chapman, Writer

"I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families"

Steve Kerr, Athlete

"Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims"

Jack Chick, Cartoonist

"While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options"

Tim Ryan, Politician

"In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about"

Justin Sane, Musician

"The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars"

John H. Reagan, Politician

"If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us"

Jane Rule, Author

"In the same proportion, Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites"

Isaac Mayer Wise, Clergyman

"Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty"

Alice Foote MacDougall, Writer

"I have enjoyed the personal use of money, but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values"

Winthrop Rockefeller, Politician

"I am not yet born; O, fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity"

Louis MacNeice, Poet

"The winner of the elections, which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people, was the Iranian nation, and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls"

Ayatollah Khamenei, Statesman

"We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell"

Arthur Murray, Businessman

"The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies"

Arthur Murray, Businessman

"The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management"

Edward Kennedy, Politician

"I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems"

Donald M. Payne, Politician

"There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Diplomat

"In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5,000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred million dollars"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Diplomat

"Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century"

Tran Duc Luong, President

"Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks"

Tom Vilsack, Politician

"Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips, in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing"

Tom Cole, Politician

"I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government"

Todd Akin, Politician

"Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch"

Ross Martin

"What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall"

Carl Stokes, Politician

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