"We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population."

-- Jan Egeland

#Rights Quotes #People Quotes #Atrocities Quotes

“I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.”
“Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.”
“Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I would like to see somebody who speaks for the underdog, for the people who don`t have this in healthcare benefits. So I would like to see a candidate who has the guts to opposition that America could be a land for all people, not just the land control by the super rich.”
“I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.”

Source : "Ghostwatch", www.imdb.com. 1992.
“I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome -- or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.”

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

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