"This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions."

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Source : "U.N. report faults prolific use of drone strikes by U.S." by David S. Cloud, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2010.

Philip Alston

#Accountability Quotes #Damage Quotes #Execution Quotes

“There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.”

Source : "Kristin Cavallari: Designing a Healthy, Balanced Life". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.”
“When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.”
“A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.”

Source : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1963). “The Alderson story: my life as a political prisoner”, Intl Pub
“Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. Whatâ€™s the difference?”
“Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?”
“A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.”
“Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.”

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