Michael Ignatieff

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Michael Ignatieff


Born
in Toronto, Canada
May 12, 1947

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Michael Grant Ignatieff is a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Harvard University and the University of Toronto.

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“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.”
Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue: A Novel

“One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.”
Michael Ignatieff

“...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.”
Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

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