Beatrice Mtetwa citations

Beatrice Mtetwa, née au Swaziland, est une avocate zimbabwéenne, « la plus célèbre avocate des droits de l'homme » du pays. Wikipedia  

✵ 1957
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Beatrice Mtetwa: Citations en anglais

“What should be important is the fact that you are the best man or woman for the job and if you are you should be appointed.”

Source: Beatrice Mtetwa: In Conversation with Trevor https://kubatana.net/2019/11/05/beatrice-mtetwa-in-conversation-with-trevor/

“If anyone wants change, they have the obligation to do something to attain that change.”

Source: Courage of Zimbabwe human rights lawyer captured in film https://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/jun/18/zimbabwe-lawyer-film-beatrice-mtetwa
Contexte: The only weapon I developed as a form of protest was to surreptitiously take out the air from the bicycle tyres every morning, which almost always delayed the cyclists. From then on, I questioned virtually everything I did not agree with.

“I have, even as a child, always been a firm believer in fairness and always strive to be even-handed in my dealings with everyone,”

Source: Beatrice Mtetwa: Zimbabwe’s Frontline Defender Of Human Rights https://www.newzimbabwe.com/beatrice-mtetwa-zimbabwes-frontline-defender-of-human-rights/

“I am not an activist because there is any glory or cash to it and not because I'm trying to antagonize the government... I'm doing it because it's a job that's got to be done”

Source: Beatrice Mtetwa HRD Zimbabwean Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/beatrice-mtetwa

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