{"quotes":[{"text":"By saying that human issues are more important than non-human issues, that violence to humans is more relevant than violence to animals, one forgets that the animal liberation movement implies a message of peace for every being on earth and the opposition against the mindset of oppression. To make a distinction between one violence and another is exactly the root of all violence: Some wouldn't do any harm to those who share with them a flag, a religion, a language, etc. But would easily condemn to suffering and death those who are different. This tragic use of diversity as an excuse to inflict pain on others for a matter of profit and convenience is the cause of suffering for both human and non-human animals.","author":"Mango Wodzak","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-rights","convenience","human-rights","opposition","oppression","peace","profit","religion","suffering"],"id":154,"author_id":"Mango+Wodzak"},{"text":"In all my childhood, they was promoting hate towards non Muslims and towards people who don't believe and worship like how we did. They thought to hate non Muslims like Jude and Christians cause they are dirty and worse then pigs. As a Christian in my country, I had no rights, everyday of my life I was living in fear or death. I had no rights in a country where I born and growth. But now when they ( Muslims ) has debate or conversation with non Muslims, they said Islam is the best and true religion cause as muslims we respect all human rights. But I must say it is not true at all cause I can not have any right in my country if I want to be a christian, even not rights of being alive. So how they said then that muslims respect all human rights? They don't, they are just making fool of themselves and some who don't know.","author":"Arash Tabish","tags":["alive","christian","human-rights"],"id":240,"author_id":"Arash+Tabish"},{"text":"Those who object to human rights protection laws typically do so because they want to be above those laws.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["human-rights","laws","object","protection"],"id":895,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"I will follow anyone and tell everyone my message because it is urgent: Please humanity Protect Yazidis.","author":"Widad Akreyi","tags":["genocide","human-rights","humanity","isis","peace","terrorism","widad-akrawi","yazidis"],"id":1439,"author_id":"Widad+Akreyi"},{"text":"The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["american","brainy","global-citizen","global-citizenship","human-life","human-race","human-rights","humanism","humanist","humanist","humanists","humanity","humanity-and-society","humankind","inspirational","life","life-lessons","one-human-race","principia-humanitas","principles-of-humanism","service-of-humanity","wise","words-of-wisdom"],"id":3597,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND THANK EVERYONEWHO TRIES TO MAKEA DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVESOF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS.","author":"Widad Akreyi","tags":["christians","civil-society","conflict","defend-international","human-rights","inspirational","kobane","kurds","peace","rape","slavery","violence-against-women","war","widad-akrawi","yazidis"],"id":4856,"author_id":"Widad+Akreyi"},{"text":"The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The chief significance of the enterprise is therefore symbolic. And the symbolism, when examined even cursorily, doesn't seem too adorable. The intended beneficiary of the stunt is a ruling group with close ties to two of the most retrograde dictatorships in the Middle East, each of which has recently been up to its elbows in the blood of its own civilians. The same group also manages to maintain warm relations with, or at the very least to make cordial remarks about, both Hezbollah and al-Qaida. Meanwhile, a document that was once accurately described as a 'warrant for genocide' forms part of the declared political platform of the aforesaid group. There is something about this that fails to pass a smell test.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["activism","al-qaeda","antisemitism","dictatorship","freedom-flotilla-ii","gaza","gaza-war","genocide","hamas","hezbollah","human-rights","israel","israeli-palestinian-conflict","middle-east","palestine","politics","protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion","symbolism"],"id":6195,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.","author":"Immanuel Wallerstein","tags":["anti-capitalism","capitalism","human-rights","religion","universalism"],"id":7472,"author_id":"Immanuel+Wallerstein"},{"text":"I now want to examine a second major feature of Western civilization that derives from Christianity. This is what philosopher Charles Taylor calls the 'affirmation of ordinary life.' It is the simple idea that ordinary people are fallible, and yet these fallible people matter. In this view, society should organize itself in order to meet their everyday concerns, which are elevated into a kind of spiritual framework. The nuclear family, the idea of limited government, the Western concept of the rule of law, and our culture's high emphasis on the relief of suffering all derive from this basic Christian understanding of the dignity of fallible human beings.","author":"Dinesh D'Souza","tags":["christianity","human-rights"],"id":8598,"author_id":"Dinesh+D%27Souza"},{"text":"The revolutionary woman knows the world she seeks to overthrow is precisely one in which love between equal human beings is well nigh impossible. We are still part of the ironical working-out of this, our own cruel contradiction. One of the most compelling facts which can unite women and make us act is the overwhelming indignity or bitter hurt of being regarded as simply ‘the other’, ‘an object’, ‘commodity’, ‘thing’. We act directly from a consciousness of the impossibility of loving or being loved without distortion. But we must still demand now the preconditions of what is impossible at the moment. It is a most disturbing dialectic, our praxis of pain.","author":"Sheila Rowbotham","tags":["consciousness","human-rights","humanity","love","marxism","philosophy","revolution","socialism","woman","women","women-s-liberation","women-s-rights"],"id":9792,"author_id":"Sheila+Rowbotham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":339,"pages":34,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}