Thursday, March 19, 2009

Great Statements on Human Rights

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Fear is not the natural state of civilized people."
-Aung Sun Suu Kyi

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair."
-Elie Wiesel

"We are all Cylons, every one of us is a Cylon, every one of us is a colonial. And you have to get rid of the idea of good guys and bad guys, because the truth is today I may be victimized and tomorrow I may be a victimizer."
-Some guy from "Battlestar Galactica"

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