Lebanese - Activist | February 3, 1978 -
The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.
Amal Clooney
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Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to do well academically. But it was equally important to do things in an effortless manner.
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My sister Tala has twins, and they're wonderful.
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I think it's important for tourists to know the facts of what's happening in the Maldives. I don't think people realize that there's a flogging taking place a kilometer away when they're sunbathing in their resort.
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My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.
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