Quotes by Amal Clooney
Amal Clooney is a human rights lawyer, activist, and author who has dedicated her career to advocating for marginalized individuals and communities around the world. She has represented clients before the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and the United Nations, and has worked on cases involving issues such as gender equality, freedom of speech, and the rights of refugees. Clooney is also a visiting professor at Columbia Law School and has written articles and essays on a variety of legal and human rights issues. (Bio)
Amal Clooney Quotes
1. "As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture.It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face."
2. "Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it."
3. "Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic."
4. "I wanted to do well academically.But it was equally important to do things in an effortless manner."
5. "I hate the idea that you somehow, as a human being, have to be put in a box.There's no reason why lawyers can't be fun - or actresses can't be serious."
6. "Democracy is dead in the Maldives."
7. "My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon."
8. "Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him.In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of state repression makes a mockery of the rule of law."
9. "I want to work on cases that I feel the most passionate about."
10. "WikiLeaks' disclosures should be protected under the First Amendment."
11. "I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis."
12. "No government intent on persecuting its critics will want to leave the outcome of a trial to chance."
13. "Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative."
14. "If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night.But that's not what drives me."
15. "I believe in international justice.I believe it's important that you don't just turn the page without people being held to account."
16. "I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it."
17. "If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged.And you might want to find your own way to protest that."
18. "There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors that is not ever seen."
19. "The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights."
20. "[W]hen I look at the world today I see that courage is needed more than ever.At a time when women all over the world face physical abuse, restrictions on their ability to work, own property, travel, and even have custody over their children, we need courage."
21. "[A]t a time when our politicians try to conflate the terms refugee and terrorist and make us fear one another, we need courage."
22. "We need young people with the courage to say, 'This is our world now, and there are going to be some changes.'"
23. "Courage, as they say, is contagious.People who have had the courage to change their societies — in India, in South Africa, in the United States — inspire each other and create rights for future generations."
24. "We need young people with the courage to say, ‘This is our world now, and there are going to be some changes.’"
25. "I’ve always been involved in things other than this business long before I was successful at it, but she’s been doing it kind of quietly and unheralded for a long, long period of time."
― Amal Clooney Quotes
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