Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty"

Claudio Hummes

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that!"

Gordon Smith, Politician

"The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial"

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei, Politician

"We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule"

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Politician

"The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man, and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - You have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican"

James Denton, Actor

"Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever"

Rosa DeLauro, Politician

"America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends"

John Olver, Politician

"I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years"

Danny Glover, Actor

"Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses"

Linda Chavez, Author

"Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth"

Linda Chavez, Author

"With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy!"

Michael Johns, Politician

"Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses, where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?"

Edward Hoagland, Author

"We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem"

Louis Finkelstein, Clergyman

"Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror"

Michael Johns, Politician

"One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true"

Linda Chavez, Author

"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations"

Aristide Briand, Statesman

"Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, Stolen Generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House"

Gwen Ifill, Journalist

"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted"

Frederick Pollock, Judge

"John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection"

George Haven Putnam, Soldier

"I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public"

Gwen Ifill, Journalist

"The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security"

Dennis C. Blair, Public Servant

"Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated"

John Bright, Politician

"Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate"

Kathe Kollwitz, Artist

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