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Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change. Erin Gruwell

Change, Power, Girl, Writing, Powerful

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

Freedom, Today, Justice, Support, Help

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them. David Blunkett

Impossible, People, You, Cards, Said, Up

Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty. Noreena Hertz

Environmental, Accountability, Become

If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats. Ted Cruz

Support, Vote, You, Democrats, Should

I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.' I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty. Toussaint Louverture

Enjoy, Forgive, Against, Us, Return, Who

We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Jail, Monsters, Off, Apartheid, Sent

In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront. Lupe Fiasco

Family, Failure, School, Strong, Help

The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And yet the idea of amnesty for a whistleblower is considered radical and extreme. Glenn Greenwald

Government, Washington, Most, Radical

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

Good, Quality, Mercy, Sides, Both Sides

I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States who has not committed a violent crime, with a special emphasis on keeping families together. Conor Oberst

Path, Together, Think, Citizenship, Who

Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, 'Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.' Marco Rubio

Forgiveness, Will, Anything, Cheaper

Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Summer Sanders

Best, Good, College, Red, Growing Up

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible. Sheldon Whitehouse

History, Hope, God, Humility, Bible

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

Expensive, Would, Too, Those, Punish

After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again. Ric Keller

Government, Argument, Gone, Us, Years

These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation. Karen Handel

Vote, Situation, Immigrants, Reward

Just because Nelson has been released doesn't mean the government has done us any favors. We have nothing to be grateful for. The government destroyed our country, destroyed our people. If anybody needs amnesty, it is the government. Hugh Masekela

Grateful, Government, People, Done, Mean

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, Feet, Wolves, Done, Young, New

It's 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 that's what matters. Peter Benenson

World, Name, Think, Matters, Only, Known

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty. P. Chidambaram

Tax, Income, Income Tax, Case

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

Stand, Plan, Political, Country, Will

There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders. Sam Graves

Children, Problem, American, Drawing

After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared. Ted Cruz

Media, Better, Political, You, Look, Way

I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.' Ted Cruz

Uniform, House, Said, Nothing, Stop, Up

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate. Ted Cruz

Fight, Never, Gang, Against, Senate, Led

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