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Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

Arundhati Roy

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum – all we are supposed to expect – but human rights aren’t enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.
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Demand Enough Expectation Fundamental Human Justice Right
Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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Literature Opposite Weapon
Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.
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Feeling Life Live People Romantic Sorry View
NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
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Dangerous Time Worst
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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Beyond Life Way World
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
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Bone Break Constitution Ordinary Story
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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Breathe Herself Journey Myself Possible Quiet World
Privatization is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all… it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World.
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Business Choice Present Privacy Rule World
A political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
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Heart Politics Struggle Woman
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
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Clothes Color Death Government Kind Mindset Nation Oneself People
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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Difference One Liner Sick Terrorism
I’m not ambitious. I don’t want to get anywhere, I don’t want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don’t want anything. I don’t want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
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Ambition Fight Freedom Money Reality Thinking War
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.
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Impossible Inspirational Thinking Time
I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a ‘natural ally’ of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.
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Feeling Shame Slave Thinking
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.
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Coporation Democracy Freedom Institution Return
The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.
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Creation Oneself People Place

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