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shall it be said in any country of the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance
or distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets
of beggers; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational
world is my friend, becausei am friend of its happiness; when these things can
be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and government.
-- Thomas Paine |
Torture
has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about
the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price,
but who are the privatized torturers accountable to?
-- Arundhati
Roy |  |
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"I
don’t belong to a church or political party or a group
of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the
most civilized organization in history. Its currency
is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that’s
why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I
believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense
of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration
and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned
for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of
repressive governments throughout the world."
-- Sting |
"On the collective level, we have unwittingly shifted
from being a nation of liberators, defenders of freedom,
into becoming a nation of arms dealers and mercenaries,
fabricating our own weapons of mass destruction and
arming tyrants with the tools to oppress their own people.
Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than
any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people
of nonwhite races — red, black, brown, and yellow. We
are one of the few nations that still indulge in the
death penalty for increasing numbers of these prisoners.
We must become mindful of these negative things, since
we need not support these actions of our nation to be
affected negatively by their evolutionary impact, unless
we mentally, verbally, and ultimately physically, disassociate
ourselves from them."
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Robert Thurman |
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