Witness (human Rights Group)
WITNESS is a human rights non-profit organization based out of Brooklyn, NY. Its mission is to partner with on-the-ground organizations to create videos that document human rights violations and their consequences, in order to further public engagement, policy change, and justice. Witness has partnered with more than 300 human rights groups in over 80 countries.
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Famous quotes containing the words witness and/or rights:
“As a particularly dramatic gesture, he throws wide his arms and whacks the side of the barn with the heavy cane he uses to stab at contesting bidders. With more vehemence than grammatical elegance, he calls upon the great god Caveat Emptor to witness with what niggardly stinginess these flinty sons of Scotland make cautious offers for what is beyond any question the finest animal ever beheld.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn’t love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country ...”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 10 (1962)