Amnesty Quotes

• Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

  Victor Hugo

  Forgiveness, Giving, Quality

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

  Aeschines

  Noble, Genuine

  Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus (1836). “The Orations of Demosthenes”, p.159

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• My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

  Barack Obama

  Stranger, Undocumented Workers, Undocumented Immigrants

  President Barack Obama's remarks in Address to the Nation on Libya at National Defense University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 28, 2011.

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• Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Punishment, Would Be, States

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.15, University of Georgia Press

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• We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Teamwork, Wall, Powerful

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• As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Revenge, Patriotic, Past

  Gerald R. Ford's address to Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 1974.

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• Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

  Ike Skelton

  Country, Political, Plans

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• I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  America, Trying, President

  Townhall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 31, 2008.

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• Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

  Marsha Blackburn

  People, Effort, Borders

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• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Law, People, Enforcement

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• Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters.

  Peter Benenson

  Thinking, What Matters, Government

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• Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

  Timothy Murphy

  Encouragement, Answers, Illegal

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• Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Mexican, Democracy, Mexico

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• I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

  Heather Wilson

  People, Support, Standing In Line

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• Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

  Richard Lamm

  Mean, Law, Immigration

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• The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Friendship, Doe, Joints

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• Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Children, Heart, Kids

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• You can't kill the truth.

  Mira Grant

  Rights, Amnesty International, Justice Truth

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• To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Favors, Should, Illegal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

  Desmond Tutu

  Ignorance, Mean, Rights

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• Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Get Up, Stand Up" (song) (1973).

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• ...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

  Arundhati Roy

  Women, Struggle, Heart

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.351, Penguin Books India

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• Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

  Peter Benenson

  Rights, Justice, Support

  The Amnesty International Report, p. 22, 2002.

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