There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time – 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn’t have toilets in the fields; they didn’t have cold drinking water. They didn’t have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Guantanamo is still open, but it’s unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I’m a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.