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"We
cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore
the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.
I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently
from other people. I think we all want justice and
equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of
us would like to believe that if we were in a bad
situation someone would help us."
~ Angelina
Jolie
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for
brain power.
-- Barbara
Jordan
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If any man claims the Negro should be content... let
him say he would willingly change the color of his skin
and go to live in the Negro section of a large city.
Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
-- Robert
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can be no peace without justice and respect for human
rights. I passionately believe in the power of human
rights as a set of global values to bring our fractured
and divided world together. Around the world human
rights activists are giving hope to millions of people
- women, indigenous people, the poor and the marginalised
- in their struggle for equality and dignity.
-- Irene
Khan
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I
have a dream that one day this nation will rise up
and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold
these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
created equal." I have a dream that one day on the
red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and
the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit
down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a
dream that one day even the state of Mississippi,
a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice
and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis
of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four
children will one day live in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character. I have a dream
today.
--
Martin
Luther King, Jr
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought
forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in
Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal.
-- Abraham
Lincoln
These
men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness
only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others,
shall have.
-- Abraham
Lincoln
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Our
cause is the cause of equality between nations and peoples.
Only thus can the brotherhood of man be firmly established.
-- Chief
Albert John Lutuli |
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Massive
poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges
of our times -- times in which the world boasts breathtaking
advances in science, technology, industry and wealth
accumulation -- that they have to rank alongside slavery
and apartheid as social evils.
-- Nelson
Mandela
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"If
we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the
right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric
or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality
then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are
shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude
that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present
privileged status. Every act that denies or limits
the freedom of the individual in this country costs
us the. . . confidence of men and women who aspire
to that freedom and independence of which we speak
and for which our ancestors fought."
-- Edward
R. Murrow
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times,
we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and
equality for all of our people. We've made our share
of mistakes, and there are times when our actions
around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
-- Barack
Obama
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