"Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization."

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Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

Shirin Ebadi

#Rights Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Standards Quotes

“By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.”
“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.”
“Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”
“The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.”
“This is perdition: the things to which the heart was attached pass away while the person himself, who is an eternal being, is filled with nothing but emptiness when he should have been filled with God Himself. That is why it is so very important that we turn our focus inward to the source of life that lives forever, even as we ourselves will live forever.”
“Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.”
“A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.”

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