"Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots."

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Source : "UN Expert Calls on Countries to Strengthen Protection of Civil Society Voices, Whistleblowers". news.un.org. September 11, 2013.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

#Country Quotes #Reality Quotes #Rights Quotes

“The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.”
“Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.”

Source : William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold
“I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.”
“I will follow you to the ends of the world.”
“You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.”

Source : "Publisher Larry Flynt". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 22, 2011.
“Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.”
“When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!”
“Coins always make sound but currency notes are always silent, so when ever your value increases keep yourself calm and silent.”

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