Arundhati Roy Quotes About Human Rights

• Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

  Arundhati Roy

  Rights, Neoliberalism, Hegemony

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• ...una lucha política que no tenga a las mujeres en su centro, por encima, por debajo y dentro de ella no es lucha en absoluto.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mujeres, Lucha, Corazón

  Arundhati Roy (2006). "Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire", p. 351, Penguin Books India.

• 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.

  Arundhati Roy

  Rights, Justice, Goal

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust - and then tries to make it more accountable.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Ideas, Rights

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has gobbled up almost all of Palestinian land with its illegal settlements. To talk about justice in that battle, you have to talk about those settlements. But, if you just talk about human rights, then you can say, "Oh, Hamas violates human rights," "Israel violates human rights." Ergo, both are bad.

  Arundhati Roy

  Land, Rights, Israel

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• Habla en voz suficientemente alta de derechos humanos y da la impresión de que la democracia funciona, de que la justicia funciona. Hubo un tiempo en que Estados Unidos hizo la guerra para derrocar democracias, porque entonces la democracia era una amenaza para el libre mercado. Los países nacionalizaban sus recursos, protegían sus mercados.... Así que entonces, las democracias reales estaban siendo derrocadas. Fueron derrocadas en Irán, fueron derrocadas en toda América Latina, Chile.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Real, War

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Ideas, Rights, Justice

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• Human rights takes history out of justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Rights, Justice, Human Rights

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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