Human Rights Violation Quotes

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

I'm being treated like a criminal by the Polish government. It's just insane. I haven't done anything. What are they accusing me of?

I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

Capital punishment is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime—for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold

A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the poor slaves, they're nought but airy mist, a light breeze scatters them, a fragrance knocks them down; it's only just they crawl on the earth on hands and knees. Today I'll write a hymn to God and pray for this great grace.

… a crime against the Palestinian people.

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest within the state than this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury and money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises. Subsequently they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as possible.

It’s all torture.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.

What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity.

Everyone is trapped in Guantanamo Bay. The prisoners are trapped of course, but so are the Guards and the staff. Even President Obama who wants to close it down is trapped.

Impunity should be condemned in any corner of the world.

The total number of children wed in America between 2000 and 2010 was nearly 248,000.

I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach; presumptuous in him, and dangerous to the masters.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.