Martin Ennals quotes

“Without peace, there is little hope for human rights”
-- Martin Ennals

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“..I think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall pattern of human development, whatever the political system, whatever the country, whatever the cultural background, whatever the religion.”
-- Martin Ennals

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“It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)

“I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.”

“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".

“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”

“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”

“Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didn’t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I’d seen it once -Woods”

“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.”

“No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.”

“It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.”

“If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.”