Joe Garcia Quotes

There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

…In certain parts of Latin America, the seizure of the vast majority of the wealth by an oligarchy of owners bereft of social consciousness, the practical absence or the shortcomings of a rule of law, military dictators making a mockery of elementary human rights, the corruption of certain powerful officials, the savage practices of some foreign capital interests constitute factors which nourish a passion for revolt among those who thus consider themselves the powerless victims of a new colonialism in the technological, financial, monetary, or economic order.

Fidel Castro has killed more people than we even know …. Fidel Castro uses medicine and food to suppress his people.

There is a terrible price the U. S. Government must pay when it associates itself … intimately with a repressive regime.

Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his own people.

Don't blame America for the thousands of Cubans who have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned by Castro for peacefully protesting the regime.

The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

I've wept for Haiti a thousand times over the years since my first trip during the Duvalier reign.

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.