rights Quotes

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.