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"Terror doesn't change people from gay to straight. It just hurts innocent people."
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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America."
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be doled out by benevolent well-wishers, but as Casement said at his trial, as those rights to which all human beings are entitled from birth. It is this spirit which underlies organizations like Amnesty International, with its belief that putting someone in prison solely for his or her opinion is a crime, whether it happens in China or Turkey or Argentina and Medecins Sans Frontieres, with its belief that a sick child is entitled to medical care, whether in Rwanda or Honduras or the South Bronx."
"The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right."
"The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view."
"I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully."
"Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own."
"Terror doesn't change people from gay to straight. It just hurts innocent people."
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"Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom."
"Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution."
"If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech."
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