Jewish Human Rights Quotes

#1. Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

Anna Maria Chavez

#2. I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.

Richard Simmons

#3. Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

Jonathan Sacks

#4. In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw.

Moses Hess

#5. It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law.

Judith Butler

#6. I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.

Grace Meng

#7. There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

Golda Meir

#8. Logan stood up, too. Everyone paused and looked at him, and he held up his hands. "I wanted to fit in. Everyone's standing.

Tijan

#9. Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.

Ian Fleming

#10. Trump claims he'd be the "best jobs president that God ever created." But isn't his claim to fame firing people?

Michael R. Burch

#11. We [Israel] already have two very strong democratic tools - the two basic laws of personal liberties and human rights. I think we should also provide the judiciary with another tool so that they can rely on the fact that Israel is a Jewish state in verdicts.

Ayelet Shaked

#12. For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.

David Novak

#13. We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.

Kelley Armstrong

#14. The clothes may vary, but the person is the same.

Idries Shah