Actions Of Respect

plant and animal rights,
human rights...
no difference here!
all built on
the actions of respect.

and sadly,
what we've lost,
and cant seem to find,
is respect!

poem by Eric Cockrell
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The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

quote by Paul Farmer
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The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

quote by John Linder
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The Man Who Took On Big Brother

The man who stand for human rights, freedom and justice
Is now in jail perhaps for a long stay
The authorities say he an an agitator
The only reason he is locked away.

He was a brave man to take on big brother
For those who take on big brother are few
And though he may spend many years behind bars
To a higher human principle he is true.

He could have kept his mouth shut like me and others
For human rights is not a popular thing
Instead he spoke his mind and got in trouble
And the wrath of big brother upon himself did bring.

He is that man who dared to take on big brother
But for his brave stand he is in jail today
And for speaking out for human rights and justice
His loss of freedom is the price he pay.

poem by Francis Duggan
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

quote by Hans Kung
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The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

quote by Ali Hoseini Khamenei
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politics ***** RAP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!

as inspired by Bob Marley reggy songs

Stand up for your rights!
either this line is
a song being sung
a rap being rapped
an expression being expressed
a ballad by ballader
a verse by preacher
a slogan by freedom fighter
a human rights philosophy
an exhausted disgusting make-believe
militants subversive fellow's
exploited rights

whatever connotations
denotations
tailed on this intuitive rights
you are fighting for......

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poem by Rommel Mark Dominguez Marchan
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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

quote by Bono
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Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

quote by Anna Lindh
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I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

quote by Peter Krause
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We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

quote by Sam Brownback
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All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

quote by Ernestine L. Rose
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There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

quote by Dorothy Height
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On Torture We Should Not Keep Our Silence

In many so called Democratic Countries Human Rights laws are being transgressed
And people due to their difference from others are imprisoned and oppressed
And suffer the worst forms of torture should we in silence stand idly by
For a wrong against any individual is a wrong against you and I.

A loss of Human rights to any individual is a loss of rights to all
The huge plague of locusts destroyed the grain crops though their numbers once were small
And like the locusts those who go along with torture their numbers multiply
But on such a matter for me to keep my silence would be to live a lie.

On torture we should not keep our silence 'tis time we made a stand
I've got a lethal weapon here the pen is in my hand
I may not command much power but to my own self I must be true
For if you do not speak out against torture you become a torturer too.

In many so called Democratic Countries Governments to torture turn a blind eye
And people due to torture have even been known to die
And those who keep their silence on such a matter are saying
torture is okay
Though a loss of rights to one individual is a loss of rights to all or to me 'twould seem that way.

poem by Francis Duggan
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All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

quote by Richard Stallman
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

classic quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
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Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human.

quote by Suzanne Lafollette
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The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

quote by Paul Farmer
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I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

quote by Bianca Jagger
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

quote by Imelda Marcos
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