Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty"

John Grierson, Director

"The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so"

Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Publisher

"And that everyone who worked had the right to eat and dress well. And the state had to look after old people, the sick, everyone. That seemed very beautiful to me"

Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Activist

"The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel"

David Duke, Celebrity

"I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"The work of Nigeria is not complete, for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman"

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Historian

"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home"

Carl T. Rowan, Journalist

"Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever"

Richard Widmark, Actor

"And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this Council"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"All I was doing was trying to get home from work"

Rosa Parks, Activist

"The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it?"

Henry George, Economist

"It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working"

Rosa Parks, Activist

"I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled, and do some fundraising for that, and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign, but it couldn't be worked out"

David Prowse, Actor

"The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure"

Sue Kelly, Politician

"Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"Make health care a right, not a privilege"

Ed Pastor, Politician

"There's a lot to be said for not displacing people"

Barney Frank, Politician

"It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment"

Barbara Castle, Politician

"Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948"

Rene Cassin, Judge

"The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa"

Oliver Tambo, Politician

"Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course, only one such would be her true Master"

John Norman, Writer

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