"It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended."

-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#Knowledge Quotes #Rights Quotes #Long Quotes

“In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.”

Source : James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.54, U of Nebraska Press
“If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.”

Source : "Mills McCartney set to become a trademark" by Julia Day, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2003.
“The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.”
“None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.”
“Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.”

Source : Annie Proulx (2011). “Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place”, p.190, Simon and Schuster
“As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.”
“Our country has caused tremendous damage and pain to the peoples of many countries, especially Asian countries, through colonial rule and invasion. Humbly acknowledging such facts of history, I once again reflect most deeply and offer apologies from my heart as well as express my condolences to all the victims of the last major war both in and out of the country,.”
“Now my tapestry's unraveling.”

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