Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude or slow-witted"

Marion Ross, Actor

"Torture is banned, but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity"

Peter Benenson, Lawyer

"I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel"

Marion Ross, Actor

"When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it"

Frank R. Wolf, Politician

"Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted"

Frank R. Wolf, Politician

"Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable"

William Hague, Politician

"Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism"

Lucille Roybal-Allard, Politician

"Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans"

Max Baucus, Politician

"We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured"

Marcy Kaptur, Politician

"The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government"

Lalu Prasad Yadav, Politician

"There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former"

Max Baucus, Politician

"The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another"

Seth Low, Educator

"Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?"

Tom Coburn, Politician

"If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review"

Robin Hayes, Politician

"We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad"

Sam Brownback, Politician

"That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt"

Hall Caine, Novelist

"As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them"

Natasha Richardson, Actress

"The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values"

Tim Holden, Politician

"Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime"

John Carter, Politician

"Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race"

Charles Bradlaugh, Activist

"Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life"

Kay Granger, Politician

"Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies"

Lionel Jospin, Statesman

"Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year"

Ishmael Reed, Poet

"I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here"

Zoe Lofgren, Politician

"I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"Even at church, people would not shake my hand"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"Pol Pot carried out, through the years, enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia"

Sydney Schanberg, Journalist

"Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"In 1939, I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem"

Leslie Charteris, Writer

"In 1790, we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence"

Lucille Roybal-Allard, Politician

"For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli"

John Conyers, Politician

"At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it"

Jai Rodriguez, Actor

"Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion"

Joan Blades, Businessman

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