Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued read more

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When read more

A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send read more

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves

And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress, that's all -- in spite read more

And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress, that's all -- in spite of the childhood bible, the comic strip. It believes that only when you're permitted to murder, kill, rob and burn can a game be in progress. That is the message carried to us by the Sunday papers. And that is the message which every child erroneously learns.

'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against read more

'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against uncivilised tribes.'
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Winston
Churchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorising
use of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6
invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil (British
Petroleum) in the last 100 years.

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people read more

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being.

America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have read more

America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.