Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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

Jimmy Carter, President

Jimmy Carter

"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

"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

"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

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

Robert Burns, Poet

Robert Burns

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"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

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

Spiro T. Agnew, Politician

Spiro T. Agnew

"Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

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

John Glenn, Astronaut

John Glenn

"Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms"

Vladimir Putin, President

Vladimir Putin

"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated"

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Writer

"Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children"

Victoria Principal, Actress

Victoria Principal

"People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

William Jennings Bryan

"Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"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

"That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen"

Michael Harrington, Writer

"But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing, and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish"

Richard Rogers, Architect

Richard Rogers

"This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you"

Kate Millett, Activist

Kate Millett

"Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular"

Alveda King, Clergyman

Alveda King

"Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X"

Lena Horne, Actress

"Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

Natan Sharansky

"Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away"

Lyn Nofziger

"I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this"

Bono, Musician

Bono

"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

Gro Harlem Brundtland

"We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less"

Ralph Bunche, Diplomat

Ralph Bunche

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