"Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time."

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Source : "Guantanamo the 'gulag of our time'". Irene Khan's speech at the news conference during the celebration of the publication of Amnesty's annual report, www.denverpost.com. May 25, 2005.

Irene Khan

“I don't think there are huge divergences between my personality and what they see on TV. And I think that's why I have been gainfully employed doing this. I'll always deliver what an employer wants.”
“Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.”
“I have a lot of -- I struggle with a lot of shame over my past. There have been times when I've been incredibly embarrassed about the things that happened to me. I don't think that there is one human being in this world that would wish, you know, to be injured as a kid the way -- in ways that I was.”
“The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.”
“It don't matter what competition it is. I make it all look easy.”
“I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it ...”
“A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.”

Source : Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.245, Routledge
“There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.”

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