Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself"

John Locke, Philosopher

John Locke

"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions"

John Locke, Philosopher

John Locke

"Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

Desmond Tutu

"Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

Desmond Tutu

"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law"

Ayn Rand, Writer

Ayn Rand

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)"

Ayn Rand, Writer

Ayn Rand

"I am for people. I can't help it"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

Charlie Chaplin

"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"Connectivity is a human right"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"We must have a government that is accountable to the people, not the other way around"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

Alexander Rutskoy

"It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims"

Judith Butler, Philosopher

Judith Butler

"I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

Jack Kevorkian

"Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

Andrea Dworkin

"Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

Andrea Dworkin

"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: You have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

Simon Wiesenthal

"The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission"

James A. Garfield, President

James A. Garfield

"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union"

George Mason, Statesman

George Mason

"Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

Woodrow Wilson

"Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom"

Jimmy Carter, President

Jimmy Carter

"At the Carter Center, we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes"

Jimmy Carter, President

Jimmy Carter

"If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

Bill Hicks

"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!"

Robert Burns, Poet

Robert Burns

"If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Theodor Herzl

"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

B. R. Ambedkar

"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America"

William Howard Taft, President

"Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

Hillary Clinton

"It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security"

John Glenn, Astronaut

John Glenn

"The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?"

George Crook, Soldier

"Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians"

George Crook, Soldier

"Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone"

Sam Houston, Politician

Sam Houston

"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back, and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever, but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement"

Angela Davis, Activist

"To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all"

Spiro T. Agnew, Politician

Spiro T. Agnew

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