Mark Knopfler Quotes

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has been on the bad side of the Chinese government for years.

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

The legal grounds are not near as important as the moral and political grounds, and I can use the courts till you can step on my beard.

You have been adopted by Amnesty. That proves you are a subversive. Amnesty only adopts [the cases of] subversives.

I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights - anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.

As an Iranian woman and activist, Sotoudeh's plight resonated with me on a deeply personal level.

We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.

I have a prominent platform and I want to use it to promote respect for human rights, democracy, and personal freedom. For me, this is bigger than basketball.

Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in the name of blasphemy.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

I came from a family who believed in the “Rights of Man,” who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.