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" Do liberals think nations such as Canada, Japan, Britain and Australia are pursuing ‘racist’ immigration policies? All have had merit-based immigration systems in place for decades. " - Mercedes Schlapp

" If people take the fight for justice seriously in their own country and with partners and immigrants in their community and folks in the international community, I believe that we will see human rights for all people affirmed. " - Opal Tometi

" You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening – this goes to the first question you asked – the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn’t been resolved yet. " - Birch Bayh

" We’re losing our way as a society. If we don’t stand up, if we don’t say what we think those rights should be, and if we don’t protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them. " - Edward Snowden

" I respect someone’s right to air their views whether they are wrong or right. " - Daryl Davis

" The terrible toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire world is a reminder of the interconnection and interdependence of all of our human rights. " - Ned Lamont

" If we could begin to look at water pollution as a human rights violation, and we could begin to look at criminal aspects of this, I think that could be a game changer for many companies who want to not be forthwith and think that they can just hold off in a lawsuit for 10 years, and in the meantime, people are still being poisoned. " - Erin Brockovich

" When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged – directly to the people of Alaska. " - Sarah Palin

" The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning. " - Robert Casey

" The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese. " - Barbara Demick