Professor Sheila McLean
“I feel I have to speak on behalf of the weak and the vulnerable. If you are lucky enough to have a public platform, as I did, you have an obligation to speak for people who cannot defend themselves.”
Dr Catharine Morgan
“I feel quite proud to be part of a culture that at least aims to uphold human rights and respect people’s differences, and welcome diverse people and religions.”
Chikwan Nam
“Society is people. If you live in this country that is everybody, not just your own little social circle. You need to understand how everyone else works in order to live your life as an adult. How are you going to understand how everything else works if you’re not exposed to everything else?”
Jenny Hodge
“I’ve never been in a situation where there was a moral imperative to break the law, but if I felt that following the law was going against my beliefs I wouldn’t.”
Dr Hema Radhakrishnan
“For me, human rights are about more than granting asylum. It is about treating people well, including people who are here. Making sure everyone has enough food is more important than the kind of prison this man would go to in Greece. “
Dr Hilary Firestone
“It is a very good way of life and it introduces principles of discipline. You can’t always have what you want when you want it. It is a good lifestyle to live by, it give you rules. It’s ethical, moral and it suits me.”
Carole Emmerson
“I think religious and ideological freedom must be limited when they cause or have the potential to cause harm to other people… physical or emotional harm… I think that violence in the name of religion is unacceptable.”
Anne Duddington
“What we need in our society is caring and compassionate MPs and a proper understanding of what we need as human beings and to fight on our behalf. In the past we have been dominated by upper class men, but I don’t think it is doing anyone a favour when we set up quotas. I think you need the right people. If you do, they will be good representatives, but if you don’t have the right education, there will be barriers for many people. We must try to take away those barriers. “
Dr Adrian Crisp MD
“I do have a strong belief that ethical standards should underpin all application of power so there need to be mechanisms to ensure that political and economic power is subject to internal ethical review, to make sure that people always behave for the good of society.”
Joaquín Acedo
“En mi experiencia, en el círculo donde yo he vivido, creo que hay bastante tolerancia y respeto en el aspecto religioso. “
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