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"Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own."
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"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."
"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America."
"The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right."
"Terror doesn't change people from gay to straight. It just hurts innocent people."
"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."
"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."
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"An idea was forming in his mind. It was only rudimentary, but in the circumstances, it could be called a plan. He loathed the alien for attacking them, without any provocation. He hated the way it was smashing up his ship " and all of them " with hardly any effort or regard for life at all. "How's that message coming?"Umm " they must be jamming us, sir " I can't get through."
"There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words."
"What would Jesus do? One thins is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do - is to behave like his followers."
"The only way a society of diverse people can survive without tearing itself apart over differences in nature is by accepting that ALL people are different, and that no single one of us is more or less deserving of decent treatment, compassion, legal and ethical equality, justice, life, or love, than any other."
"Isn't lying supposed to be a 'sin'? Or is it okay to lie when trying to make people you hate look bad?"
"If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred."
"Cautiously, he moved further out, checking the roofs, doors, windows. Nothing. He walked out further, keeping against the wooden wall of a building, just in case. His heart was pounding in his ears. Strange, isn't it? You could be in hundreds of fights, but everyone always seemed like the first time. A million different things could happen, go completely wrong. Then it might well be his last. Where is he? Which building?"
"They set about making people so unhappy and isolated and when they crawl into a hole and pull it in after them, they have the nerve to call homosexuality a 'suicidal lifestyle'. And yet they do this - and deny that any gay or trans person could ever be a 'true' Christian. As if THEY are."
"Is human dignity and human life so cheap that the rights protecting it can be traded away to appease the appetite for intimidation and prejudice of a vicious and self-centered group - for whatever reason, power, politics, nationalism, or unity?"
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