"The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are."

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Source : "What Africa Needs Above All: The Rule of Law" by Dr. Mo Ibrahim, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2014.

Mo Ibrahim

#Law Quotes #Practice Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.”
“The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”
“Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right for the people they have harmed. Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night.”
“Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.”
“Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.”

Source : "Why Obama So Dislikes Netanyahu" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 03, 2015.
“If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.”
“The most effective way to manage change is to create it.”
“I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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