When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
Interpretation
Depriving people of their basic rights leads to conflict and resistance.
This quote highlights the importance of dignity and autonomy in human life. When individuals are denied their rights to live with dignity and to aspire for a better future, they are likely to respond with resistance and fight for those fundamental rights, emphasizing the necessity of treating people with respect and allowing them agency over their lives.
In practice
During a speech advocating for human rights at a rally.
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
If you educate a boy, you educate a person, but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.β An entire community - now that is really interesting! Then I found the quote changed a little more on the Kingdom of Jordan website by her Royal Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan during her interview with Oprah Winfrey. Queen Rania relates the quote in these words: βAs you educate a woman, you educate the family. If you educate the girls, you educate the future.
I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
Everybody works but the vacant lot
Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.
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