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we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless
we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their
dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout
the world.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt Where,
after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so
close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such
are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity,
equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there,
they have little meaning anywhere.
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Freedom
means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who
struggle to gain those rights or keep them.
-- Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Four Freedoms Speech, 6 January 1941 |
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
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The
indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity,
or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand that this
is not a favor or a concession, but simply their natural right to be recognized
as belonging to a culture that is distinct from the Western culture, a culture
in which they have to live their own faith.
-- Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia
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every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the
reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community
spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this
may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
-- Carl
Sagan
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Silence
in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.
-- Ginetta Sagan |  |
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"I
want my child to walk in a world guided by love. This means that everybody will
have a job, or the resources to take care of basic needs. A world where families
are not oppressed and are connected to their neighbors and their communities,
where the best in humanity is honored. That's when we will truly be at peace."
-- Malika Sanders
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Human
rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's
entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and
must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.
... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.
-- Mother Teresa |
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The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was
born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for
the promotion and protection of man’s basic rights and freedoms. The world has
come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace
can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these
rights and freedoms.
-- U
Thant, Third United Nations Secretary-General, 1961-1971 Every
human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must
each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
~ U
Thant |
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in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers
himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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"It
means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone.
And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant."
-- Bishop Desmond Tutu |  |
See
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