Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"The more we study the Indian's character, the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"The earth and its resources belong, of right, to its people"

Gifford Pinchot, Politician

"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are"

Luis Gutierrez, Politician

"Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill"

Luis Gutierrez, Politician

"Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"In all cases our stance will be determined by what serves the interests of the Palestinian people"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry, they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"In democracy, everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks"

Chris Patten, Politician

"I would like to solemnly reaffirm that poverty is not a fatality"

Mathieu Kerekou, Politician

"And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard, and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling"

Charles Moore, Writer

"Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama coast, so we came back to Memphis"

Shelby Foote, Author

"Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship"

Jacques Delors, Economist

"Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population"

Jared Diamond, Author

"That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed"

Marvin Olasky, Educator

"I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in"

Marvin Olasky, Educator

"Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings"

Henry Mayhew, Journalist

"The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch"

Julius Streicher, Soldier

"Each murder is one too many"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them, they don't exist"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"I believe AIDS is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them"

Gay Talese, Journalist

"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face"

Steven Biko, Activist

"The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected"

Mike Ferguson, Politician

"We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories"

Cecil Rhodes, Statesman

"In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within"

Chen Ning Yang, Physicist

"Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic"

Norman Jewison, Director

"We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us"

Graham Nash, Musician

"Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

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