HUMAN
RIGHTS QUOTES
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Today,
I wish that the millions of displaced people would be able to return with the
necessary conditions of safety and dignity, that people in exile could return
to their home-country as the intelligence is needed, that cruelty, political killings,
poverty and hunger cease. I wish that our people recover their dignity, truth
is revealed and justice exists.
-- Alirio
Uribe Muñoz |
| "Peace, development
and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible."
-- Theo van Boven
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"You cannot have peace without human rights, democracy, gender equality, and clean
water. Look to the root causes of war and you will find, in their reverse, the
root foundations of peace."
-- Cora
Weiss |  |
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Of equality
- As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As
if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
~ Walt Whitman
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"I
swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence
encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
-- Elie
Wiesel |  |
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“Human rights is the only
ideology that deserves to survive”
--
Simon Wiesenthal "When
history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions
of people and get away with it.”
-- Simon
Wiesenthal "Tolerance
and human rights require each other."
-- Simon
Wiesenthal
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every man his chance, to every man regardless of his birth, his shining golden
opportunity. To every man the right to live and to work and to be himself. And
to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him. This
is the promise of America.”
-- Thomas Wolfe
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"Chinese
and Tibetan dissidents are either locked up in prison, forced into hiding, or
silenced by fear of police retaliation against their families. All the happiness
about China's economic growth has made many Americans forget that police clubs
and guns and the Laogai system keep the Communist Party in power. Moreover, it
is still little recognized how American resources help to sustain that power through
trade, investments, and the transfer of technology... It is only when the Laogai
is abolished in China that real change will come about."
-- Harry
Wu |  |
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"...we should not give
up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there
is still the memory of the victims of this war, there is still our duty to try
and prevent further bloodshed. We have to prosecute all the perpetrators of war
crimes and crimes against humanity."
-- Lida
Yusupova *
"...civil
society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them
to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help."
-- Lida
Yusupova |
| I love life and
want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for
their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life
of slavery, of humiliation and
contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not
give in to the Turkish Inquisition.
-- Leyla
Zana *
I
have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I’ll
keep doing so for as long as I live.
-- Leyla
Zana |  |
Human
Rights Day - December 10
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