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Victims should come first.”
-- Maria Julia Hernandez
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers”
-- Carl Gustav JungShamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
-- Edward Kennedy
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
-- John Locke
The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.
-- Sean MacBride
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once and for all. We have to proclaim that every human being is equal, in dignity, in freedom —and, as the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, we have to live “in a spirit of brotherhood.”
-- Federico Mayor
If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.
-- Moby
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
-- MontesquieuIf cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America -- even those designated as 'unlawful enemy combatants.' If you make this exception the whole Constitution crumbles.
- - Alberto J. Mora, former Navy General CounselWhoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
-- Friedrich Nietzche
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Dalai Lama | Inge GenefkeEnd Torture Day - June 26
