Abdul Hakeem Mujahid Quotes

It seems strange to the rest of the world, but we Americans can't seem to stop talking about how other countries should be democratic like we are.

We have no right to thrust our advanced views on our less advanced countrymen.

The best American internationalists reject the idea that their nation holds a global copyright that gives it a mandate to churn out replicas dotting the world.

We do not have the God-given right to intervene in any country in which we feel like intervening.

Dignity is the issue that vexes billions of people around the world, not democracy…. People don't like to be told what to do by outsiders … Foreign intervention offends people's dignity.

Modern man is prompt to prevent cruelty to animals, and sometimes even to humans, but no counterpart of the Humane Society or the Sierra Club exists to prevent cruelty to entire cultures.

You look at the Americans. They don't lack fervour in moral causes. They promote democracy, freedom of speech, women's rights, gay rights, sometimes even transgender rights. But you don't see them applying that universally across the world with all their allies.

People in Russia have a right to their choice if they want to live in an empire, but they need to accept that people in Ukraine have their right to be free.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

I regarded and still regard the proposed annexation of Hawaii as not only opposed to our national policy but as a perversion of our national mission. The mission of our nation is to build up and make a great country out of what we have, instead of annexing islands

We are pursuing what I trust is a correct course from the point of international law, and we are not intervening in the internal affairs of this country …

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

Successful occupation will not occur unless the special circumstances of this unusual country are heeded.

Japan has no intention of ever attempting to dictate to another country how it should regulate its internal affairs, but our normal human pride would always be irritated by specific legal discrimination against us as Japanese

The League of Nations must never break the sacred support of the minority-rights.[