Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point"

Linda Chavez, Author

"Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back"

Les Aspin, Politician

"I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability, and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie, throughout Islamic teachings"

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei, Politician

"The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons"

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Politician

"A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race"

James Payn, Novelist

"I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way"

Kelly Preston, Actress

"Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels"

Juan Marichal, Athlete

"Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?"

Gwen Ifill, Journalist

"Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation"

Hamid Karzai, Statesman

"The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo"

Jacques Verges, Lawyer

"On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported, and hundreds of thousands were simply killed"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"We could, in fact, transport a person, say, a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened"

Dexter S. King, Activist

"I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities"

Ernst Thalmann, Politician

"The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying: Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be"

Abbey Lincoln, Musician

"Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions"

Ernst Thalmann, Politician

"I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"As a Jew, I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high"

Kathe Kollwitz, Artist

"The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies"

Harry A. Blackmun, Judge

"It appears to suggest that I was removed because I was disabled - based on one occasion out of hundreds"

Gerald Walpin, Public Servant

"I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world"

Kim Y. Sam, Writer

"We put the Children to death... by throwing them overboard and shooting out their brains in the water"

George Percy, Explorer

"Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum"

George Clymer, Politician

"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates"

George Jackson, Activist

"Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order"

George Jackson, Activist

"The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing"

Edwin M. Stanton, Lawyer

"We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide"

Feisal Abdul Rauf, Theologian

"While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream"

John Salazar, Politician

"Any, that is, why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance"

John Breaux, Politician

"Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property"

John H. Morgan, Writer

"I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World"

Martin Sheen, Actor

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