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It's
only when we imagine for ourselves what it would be like to run from state terror,
torture, rape, the destruction of our homes and families that we can understand
how vital it would be to find a place that welcomed us and tried to heal our wounds.
-- Emma Thompson |  |
"No exceptional
circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal
political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification
of torture."
--United Nations Convention Against Torture
"I swore never to
be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always
take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages
the tormentor, never the tormented."
-- Elie
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“Human rights is the only
ideology that deserves to survive”
--
Simon Wiesenthal "When
history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions
of people and get away with it.”
-- Simon
Wiesenthal
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"Chinese
and Tibetan dissidents are either locked up in prison,
forced into hiding, or silenced by fear of police
retaliation against their families. All the happiness
about China's economic growth has made many Americans
forget that police clubs and guns and the Laogai system
keep the Communist Party in power. Moreover, it is
still little recognized how American resources help
to sustain that power through trade, investments,
and the transfer of technology... It is only when
the Laogai is abolished in China that real change
will come about."
-- Harry
Wu
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"...we should not give
up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there
is still the memory of the victims of this war, there is still our duty to try
and prevent further bloodshed. We have to prosecute all the perpetrators of war
crimes and crimes against humanity."
-- Lida
Yusupova "...civil
society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them
to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help."
-- Lida
Yusupova |
| I love life and
want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for
their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life
of slavery, of humiliation and
contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not
give in to the Turkish Inquisition.
-- Leyla
Zana |  |
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