The heart of the Civil Rights movement: a movement Coca-Cola has a troubled history with … Martin Luther King called for a boycott of Coca-Cola. Mark Thomas, Dispatches: Coco-Cola, Channel 4 2007
In 2000 … Coca-Cola agree to pay nearly two hundred million dollars to settle a federal [race discrimination] case brought by employees. ibid.
January 2007: ‘The paramilitaries of Magdalena Medio call on the terrorist Coca-Cola trade unionists to stop bad-mouthing the Coca-Cola corporation, given that they have cost enough damage already … military targets of the Black Eagles’. ibid.
At least 189 major human rights violations and nine murders including this man … shot inside the Coca-Cola plant. ibid.
If those who violate human rights can do so with impunity, they come to believe they are beyond the reach of the law. Amnesty International
We need to expand the civil-rights struggle to a higher level — to the level of human rights. Whenever you are in a civil-rights struggle, whether you know it or not, you are confining yourself to the jurisdiction of Uncle Sam. No-one from the outside world can speak out in your behalf as long as your struggle is a civil-rights struggle. Civil rights comes within the domestic affairs of this country … You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don’t even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor. Malcolm X, speech Cleveland, Ohio, 3rd April 1964
Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth. And any time any one violates your human rights, you can take them to the world court. Malcolm X, speech Cleveland, Ohio, 3rd April 1964