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“Today we demand justice for the oppressed. We no longer accept atrocities as the inescapable fate of the defenceless. We desire and expect a better future. But when confronted with the enormity of injustice and what it demands of us, we retreat into the familiar ritual of intellectualization and moral posturing, recycling lofty liberal ideals from a safe distance. We avoid the intimate knowledge of suffering without which we will never understand the imperative of human rights.”
― In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey
― In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey
“There can be no meaningful change if we choose to look down at the arena of anguish from thirty thousand feet.”
― In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey
― In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey
“The problem with the world is not a shortage of brilliant theories or feel-good slogans. The problem is that we confuse proliferation of progressive terminology with profound empathy and purposeful engagement. We say the right things, but we fail to act on them because we want to feel virtuous without paying a price”
― In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey
― In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey
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