Nadia Murad Quotes

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

Shall any man be above Justice. Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice. When great crimes were committed I am for punishing the principal as well as the Coadjutors

The work does not end with the abolition of slavery but only begins.

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

All the problems that fall to the League may ultimately be reduced to one - that of man, and the dignity of man.

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory. The right to play on any playing field? You have earned it. The right to study in any school? You have earned it. The right to hold a job? You have earned it. The right to anyone's neighbor? You have earned it.

The vision of Israel's prophets became the pillar of fire leading the struggle in support of the weak and the different towards equality.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.

Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win it. Freedom holds us accountable no matter the disadvantages we inherit from the past.

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

But while Nelson Mandela's work is sadly done, his dream is unfinished.

I think Pride, it means ultimately, finally, being able to live with freedom in some ways. Or, at least, that's what we're striving for.

We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.

During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.

I stand up for all rights.

Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.

Justice is one of the core elements towards reconciliation and sustainable peace.