592. UNIVERSALLY, IN HUMAN RIGHTS WORK, WHEN THERE IS A CLEAR PATH, INACTION IS UNFORGIVEABLE. (George Kent)
. -Describe your village well and you will be universal. (Leon Tolstoi)
591. HUMAN RIGHTS REPRESENT THE RETURN TO WHAT IS TRANSCENDENTAL IN POLITICS. (Regis Debray)
. -The formation of our respective political identity is ultimately a lot more complicated than what is implied in the oft-assumed trajectory from youthful (transcendental?) idealism to
590. HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS ARE HARDLY SOLVED IN AIRCONDITIONED ROOMS; THE STRUGGLE IS ELSEWHERE. (Beto O’Rourke)
. –Solidarity is something that is made –and remade, and remade. It never
589. HERE IS A CALL NOT TO GET INVOLVED IN UNREPRESENTATIVE POLITICS, BUT A CALL TO HELP CREATE A NEW POLITICS.
. The ideology behind political power brokers –Elections serve to change governments, not to change regimes, i.e.,theleft or right ideology…
588. NEOLIBERALISM GUARANTEES THE HIERARCHY OF THE HOLY TRINITY ‘PRIVATE-MARKET-FINANCES’ OVER THE UNIVERSAL VALUES OF HUMAN RIGHTS. (Gianni Tognoni)
. -As Al Capone used to say, “You get more with gentle words and a pistol in your hand than with gentle
587. UNTIL LIONS HAVE THEIR OWN HISTORIANS, HUNTING HISTORIES WILL CONTINUE TO GLORIFY HUNTERS. (African proverb)
. -For people fighting our damn wars there are no winners or losers; just survivors. But
586. CURRENT DEVELOPMENT FADS FETISHIZE DATA, OSTENSIBLY FOR WHAT IS CALLED ‘EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY-MAKING’: WHERE ARE YOU HUMAN RIGHTS?
. Let me first turn to things close to what you and
585. RELEGATING HUMAN RIGHTS TO OBLIVION: WHAT DO BUZZWORDS DO FOR DEVELOPMENT POLICY?
. 1. Development work is plagued with myths that work through emotional identification, not through rationality.* (Georges Sorel) The utopias that are shored up by myths in the
584. MOST HUMAN RIGHTS WRITINGS ARE ABOUT HOW OTHER PEOPLE COULD DO THINGS FOR CLAIM HOLDERS, NOT ABOUT SUPPORTING THEM TO LIFT THEMSELVES TO ACT ON THEIR OWN BEHALF.#
. -(#: I hope this is not true for this Reader…). -It is understandable that texts intended for students and human rights (HR) academics are not written for the
583. RONALD REAGAN’S MANTRA THAT THE POOR BRING POVERTY AND THE RICH BRING WEALTH, SO THE RICH SHOULD BE LEFT TO CREATE WEALTH IS A CLASSICAL DECEIVING QUOTE OF NEOLIBERALS.
. -If I were a rich man… (Fiddlers on the Roof) Economics has come to be thought-of as a discipline