Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there, but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead!"

Morning Star, Statesman

"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?"

Mitchell Reiss, Diplomat

"Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority"

William H. Seward, Politician

"But the truth of the matter is that there is, there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country, and certainly in the security life of the country"

John Abizaid, Soldier

"Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation"

John Hawkins, Businessman

"These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war"

William H. Seward, Politician

"If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we, as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?"

William H. Seward, Politician

"I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can"

William H. Seward, Politician

"I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations"

William H. Seward, Politician

"But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations"

William H. Seward, Politician

"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man"

William H. Seward, Politician

"The later it gets, the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers!"

Erich Maria Remarque, Writer

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