You can't have occupation and human rights.
Interpretation
Occupation undermines the fundamental human rights of individuals.
This quote by Christopher Hitchens suggests that when a territory is occupied, the rights of the people in that territory are often violated. Occupation typically involves a power dynamic where the occupier enforces control over the local population, restricting their freedoms and denying them their basic rights, thereby indicating that genuine human rights cannot coexist with such a system of oppression.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech discussing the impacts of military occupation on civilian populations.
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
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Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-face, ingratiating way β because itβs had to give so much more ground and because we know so much more. But youβve got no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had God on its side.
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
It would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the Force,' in the same sense that it would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the sun.' Give it whatever name you like - the Force, the Tao, the Holy Spirit, the Universal Mind - I see it in action everywhere I look, both in the world and in myself.
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The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
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