Gov’t Corruption
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Guatemala: Organizaciones internacionales rechazamos enérgicamente la segunda condena impuesta contra la exfiscal Virginia Laparra
Tags Share Washington DC, Estados Unidos; San José, Costa Rica; Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, 8 de julio de 2024 Las organizaciones firmantes rechazamos la reciente condena dictada en contra de la exfiscal Virginia Laparra por revelación de información, y consideramos que esta decisión judicial no se ajusta a la realidad de los hechos ni refleja…
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Truthout: Groups Bring Tortuguita’s Killing to International Human Rights Commission
Tags Share This month, several nonprofit organizations, including Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the Southern Center for Human Rights, and the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), requesting an investigation into the police killing of Manuel Terán, an activist known as “Tortuguita.” According to…
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
It is necessary to mistrust personal power enough to provide for some restraints upon its use. This is the idea of political competition that underlies everything else in the American political system and the Constitution. Do not deprive a man of his capacity to act. Just be sure that he in turn is willing to…
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Address at the Annual Luncheon of the Associated Press, New York City
It is virtually impossible for even the most alert administration to be fully aware of all the corruption or laxity that can creep into our government. But an alert press can make a major difference not only in eliminating wasteful or corrupt practices, but in ensuring that justice prevails.
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Speech in Chicago
I believe that, as long as most men are honest, corruption is twice vicious. It hurts men and it undermines their fundamental rights. We must be doubly wary, with private and public vigilance.
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Speech in New York
The individual man, in whose hands democracy must put its faith and its fate, is capable of great heights of achievement. He is also capable of infinite degradation. Fortunately most of our institutions have safe-guards which ultimately unseat a man when power results in arrogance and corruption. But often before justice is done the very…
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
Most of our fellow citizens do their best—and do it the modest, unspectacular, decent, natural way which is the highest form of public service. But every day in a shameful variety of ways the selfish actions of the small minority sully the honor of our na
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Speech in Chicago
The financial cost of organized crime is not limited to the vast illicit profits of gambling or narcotics.
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Speech at Worthington, Minnesota
Even as in the drive toward bigness and concentration, the city has reached heights never before dreamt of in the past, we have come suddenly to realize how heavy a price we have paid
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Jamie Prieto Mendez
Biography: Jaime Prieto Mendez is one of the leading figures in the Colombian human rights movement, serving from 1990 to 1998 as executive director of the Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners, the most effective advocates in the country for those imprisoned for political beliefs. For most of the past fifty years, Colombia has been…
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