"Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children."

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Source : IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. May 31, 2004.

Carol Bellamy

#Children Quotes #Uganda Quotes #Rights Quotes

“For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.”

Source : Sir Thomas Malory, Eugène Vinaver (1975). “King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA
“Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.”
“You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you.”
“I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my feelings, my convictions, my understanding of the world, and testing whether they're really true. So that when you hang your holster up, you can make a judgment on whether you have any integrity at all. That's what I care about. That's why I wrote it. If I can't write that poem, then I've got it wrong somehow.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“I wouldn't be a very good hunter without these glasses. I'm not a very good hunter with these glasses, but I'd be even worse without them, so that would put a crimp in how many kids I could have, so all of these medical advances have at least in some parts of the world blunted natural selection.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Halloween is fun, but it wasnt always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.”
“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
“The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.”

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