Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"It is often said that Poland is a country where there is antisemitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state"

Bronislaw Geremek, Historian

"This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps"

Frederick Law Olmsted, Architect

"Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion"

John Comenius, Educator

"Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons"

Helen Prejean, Writer

"Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections"

George Montgomery, Artist

"At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation"

Ethel Rosenberg, Criminal

"I guess they just wanted to scoop a bunch of people up, hoping they got me, and unfortunately they did"

Sherman Austin, Activist

"While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours"

Sherman Austin, Activist

"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country"

Nancy Travis, Actress

"Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State"

John Culberson, Politician

"People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment"

Jeff Bingaman, Politician

"We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity"

Abdoulaye Wade, Statesman

"I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children"

Teresa Wright, Actress

"Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force"

Sheikh Hasina, Politician

"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged"

Neil Abercrombie, Politician

"I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, "Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?" "Well, we have no mechanism to do it," I was told"

Neil Abercrombie, Politician

"Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist"

Mia Farrow, Actress

"I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn"

Jim Gibbons, Politician

"The right to happiness is fundamental"

Anna Pavlova, Dancer

"Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it"

Yousef Munayyer, Activist

"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions"

James Welch, Writer

"There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life"

Harry Bridges, Activist

"All I want to be is human, and American, and have all the same rights, and I will shut up"

Martha Griffiths, Politician

"Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not. They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses"

Walter Duranty, Journalist

"We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy"

Jerry Doyle, Actor

"The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure, regardless of the price!"

Emile Lahoud, Statesman

"This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities"

Lucille Roybal-Allard, Politician

"Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12"

Lucille Roybal-Allard, Politician

"We will smite the Jews where we meet them, and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences"

Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Soldier

"Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse"

Morris Dees, Lawyer

"I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute"

Zoe Lofgren, Politician

"In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants"

William H. Wharton, Politician

"Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness"

James Welch, Writer

"We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'"

Tim Johnson, Politician

"The rights of the weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong"

Dionigi Tettamanzi, Clergyman

"Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child and recognize that it is really a young human who can feel pain and should be treated with care"

Sam Brownback, Politician

"It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet"

Sam Brownback, Politician

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