Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy"

Connie Sellecca, Actress

"Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women"

Caprice Bourret, Model

"It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are, that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority"

Harry A. Blackmun, Judge

"We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere!"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors"

Kim Y. Sam, Writer

"By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it"

Cynthia Payne, Celebrity

"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one"

Ethan A. Hitchcock, Soldier

"Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government"

Connie Sellecca, Actress

"Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening"

Arthur Hertzberg, Theologian

"The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - No public funding for abortion"

Bart Stupak, Politician

"Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it"

Andrew Goodman, Activist

"If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future"

Charlie Dent, Politician

"In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual"

Andrew Sullivan, Journalist

"It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids"

David Broder, Journalist

"Every time I went on TV, I got a threat"

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Politician

"In France, we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them!"

Audrey Tautou, Actress

"Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions"

Alexander Dubcek, Politician

"All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care"

Bart Stupak, Politician

"I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day"

Ann Druyan, Writer

"We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy"

Bram Cohen, Scientist

"Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State"

Ali A. Saleh, Writer

"That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it"

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Politician

"A people must have dignity and identity"

Andrew Goodman, Activist

"We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights, which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out"

Bart Stupak, Politician

"The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing"

Arthur Scargill, Politician

"Next, we will create a modern immigration law"

Gerhard Schroder, Statesman

"My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

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