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“Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.”

People Seems Form Rights Violence Worst Including Tyranny

Book:The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

Source: The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

“We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves to divide, fragment and privatise our communal organisations. Now more than ever, it is a matter of urgency for us to consolidate our own indigenous alternatives for development.”

Matter Moving Difficult Situation Cutting Rights Development Including Alternatives Divides Fragments Indigenous Urgency Organisation Indigenous People Peru Difficult Situations Territorial

Author:Evaristo Nugkuag

“Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.”

Humans Heart Individual Religious Liberty Rights Including Human Rights Iraq Religious Freedom Individual Liberty

Author:Jalal Talabani

“If there are rights or duties of people which are not guaranteed because they're part of a [de facto] union and not of a family, there will be the need of a legislative action to remove the disparity. Obviously, when talking about people I refer to everyone [including homosexuals].”

People Ifs Needs Action Talking Rights Duty Unions Including Remove Homosexual Disparity

Author:Gianfranco Fini

“Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.”

World Humans Government Rights Including Human Rights Denial Egypt Basic Human Rights

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which, in destroying individual rights - including property rights - and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worthwhile.”

Source: African and European Addresses

“Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?”

People Should Children Home Able Rights Gay Should Have Including Gay People Legal Rights

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“World peace is threatened not only by weapons of mass destruction but also by conventional weapons which have led to countless violations of human rights, including the rights to life and to physical integrity. A strong treaty can contribute greatly to international and regional peace, security and stability.”

“I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.”

“It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who operates in the political arena wants to see their morals reflected in our laws and governmental institutions - including the National Organization of Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the American Civil Liberties Union, whether or not they are willing to admit it.”

Want Said Action Christian Law Political Force Religious Talking Liberty Moral Rights Willing Organization Institutions Unions Including League Abortion Arena Civil Liberties Abortion Rights

Author:Don Feder

“Tanzania is standing by the people of Zimbabwe including President Mugabe... Mugabe is there, he is president, he has been elected. If Tanzania had simply said, stupid, you're hopeless, a murderer, a violator of basic human rights; does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn't.”

People Ifs Humans Doe Has Beens Said President Rights Stupid Office Standing Including Human Rights Remove Hopeless Murderer Zimbabwe Tanzania Basic Human Rights Simply Said Mugabe

Author:Jakaya Kikwete

“There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process.”

“The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation.”

“Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights.”

Source: Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences

“Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can, and I have some great help: there are almost two hundred cartoons included in the book, including dozens from the brilliant Bizarro strip.”

I Can Two Book Helping Animal Rights Subjects Serious Hundred Including Brilliant Animal Rights Dozen Cartoon Serious Subjects

Author:Karen Dawn

“Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and paid a professional price for it. Behind the scenes, she struggled in a fractious, sometimes violent relationship with her husband and manager and with mental health issues that strained other relationships, including with her only daughter.”

“I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth running of the state as insanity and treating it as such, and so as that happens you see the evolution of a process in which people with schizophrenia are increasingly feared and our hospitals, particularly the kind of hospital that I look at in the book become to look more and more like prisons, to the point where many of them including the one I talk about actually become prisons.”

“The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.”

People Want Firsts Believe Humans Kind Problem Common Rights Economic Don't Believe Including Human Rights Solve Islamic

Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi