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Mary Robinson Quotes


34 quotes:
"Count up the results of 50 years of human rights mechanisms, 30 years of multibillion-dollar development programs and endless high-level rhetoric, and the global impact is quite underwhelming, ... This is a failure of implementation on a scale which shames us all."
Author: Robinson Quotes Category: Human Rights Quotes
"The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together."
Author: Robinson Quotes Category: Design Quotes
"It came very close to two of our colleagues, ... so we got into our cars, drove a little bit further, and rang the [Israeli Defense Forces] and they came and escorted us out."
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"The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in."
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"I think the main perpetrators are substantially known, and indeed known to Jakarta ... at every meeting I have attended the issue of justice has come up,"
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"The convention (on refugees) provides that they should be accepted at the nearest port and I think the issue is a very serious one."
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"I am very shocked, as are all my colleagues ... how much the people have suffering, and how much they will go on suffering."
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"I was shocked and appalled by the harrowing accounts of the Chechen civilians, ... I listened to testimony of summary executions, intimidation, looting by military personnel, disproportionate use of force, attacks on civilians' convoys, rape and other violations."
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"I love it here. I love it."
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"The information that I've been given is that there is a serious situation of imprisonment, detention and torture."
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"How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world."
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