Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States"

Robert Matsui, Politician

"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights"

Peter Munk, Businessman

"Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices"

Peter Lewis Allen, Writer

"What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life"

Michael Schiavo, Celebrity

"The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself"

Dee Brown, Novelist

"I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But in most cases, it's a holding cell"

Lee Tergesen, Actor

"I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers, and employers have a more consistent pool of workers"

Larry Craig, Politician

"No pope ever condemned slavery"

Joseph McCabe, Writer

"Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power"

Joseph McCabe, Writer

"Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them"

John Sergeant Wise, Author

"It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union"

John H. Reagan, Politician

"Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed"

Robert Runcie, Clergyman

"She was a patron saint of the peripheral"

Jane Howard, Journalist

"We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence"

Jane Rule, Author

"The government serves the people - not vice-versa"

Joe Wilson, Politician

"The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly"

Jose Ramos-Horta, Politician

"It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years"

Jose Ramos-Horta, Politician

"In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development"

Jose Ramos-Horta, Politician

"I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in Northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch"

Ishmael Reed, Poet

"By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless, that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation"

Abdallah II

"Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!"

Kaspar Hauser, Celebrity

"I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado"

Tom McClintock, Politician

"Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective"

Lewis Thompson Preston, Businessman

"The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism"

Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Soldier

"The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud"

Lynn Westmoreland, Politician

"However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness"

Tran Duc Luong, President

"AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations"

Sarah Polley, Actress

"I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights"

Jean O'Leary, Activist

"The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions"

William Hague, Politician

"There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"Everyone is an abused child if you think about what governments do"

Tim Roth, Actor

"Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people"

Tom Daschle, Politician

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