widespread use of torture, persecution of minority groups and the denial of freedom of speech, association and religion


Jiang Zemin

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You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be...
SCOTT HOWARD PHILLIPS
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
BEN CARSON
Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.
JOHN STEINBECK
متهمون نحن بالإرهاب
أذا كتبنا عن بقايا وطن ...
مخلع...
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آیا مضحک تر از این مردم یافت می شود، که هیچ وقت از آزادی ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom ...
FRANK MURPHY
Abdul Basit and the Hurriyat did not thank their freedom of speech in India when they could spend th...
APURVA GAGLANI
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of puri...
TIFFANY MADISON
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice ...
G.K. CHESTERTON
Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like...
NEIL GAIMAN
Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

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JIM C. HINES My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, an...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Nobody can bind the thoughts by imposing the rules and regulations, terms and conditions.
YASMEEN KHAN
‎"Freedom is fundamentally the possibility of standig on a street corner and shouting “There is ...
YOANI SáNCHEZ
Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.
BANANI RAY
You have a real constitution that protects freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of s...
ELIZABETH CHENEY
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
JIMMY WALES
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and sil...
JAMES MADISON
One of the curious aspects of the Twenty-First Century was the great delusion amongst many people, p...
JARETT KOBEK
People's abuse through journalism should not be taken us freedom of press.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
What you have been seeing over the last year is the policy of Jiang Zemin, not Deng Xiaoping.
DAVID MALPASS
Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing.
AULIQ ICE
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
JACQUES PARIZEAU
Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you do...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK
He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK
I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK
Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK
I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK
I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK
It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK
Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK
Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be...
SAINT IGNATIUS
I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,...
SAINT IGNATIUS
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagati...
SAINT IGNATIUS
We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar...
SAINT IGNATIUS
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w...
SAINT IGNATIUS
In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
SAINT IGNATIUS
In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju...
SAINT IGNATIUS
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
SAINT IGNATIUS
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
SAINT IGNATIUS
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
SAINT IGNATIUS
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je...
SAINT IGNATIUS
If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
SAINT BERNARD
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ...
SAINT BERNARD
Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
SAINT BERNARD
Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav...
SAINT BERNARD
I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C...
SAINT BERNARD
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
SAINT BERNARD

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the prospect for cooperation between us has become broader rather than narrower.
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We must never rely on others to promote economic construction, ... decadent thoughts and lifestyles.
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The whole meeting was very constructive.
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