William Dalrymple (1965) author and historian
In Zeenews, "William Dalrymple's book on first Anglo-Afghan war out in December"
Twitter 17 Oct 2019
2019
William Dalrymple (1965) author and historian
In Zeenews, "William Dalrymple's book on first Anglo-Afghan war out in December"
Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official
2018, Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946) primate of the Russian Orthodox Church
24 September 2015 http://www.pravmir.com/west-should-learn-from-russia-to-accept-muslim-refugees-patriarch-kirill/ at a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at his residence in Peredelkino, Moscow Region.
Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989) former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
in an interview on ABC
1965
Joseph Fred Naumann (1949) Catholic archbishop
Archbishop Naumann: “If the Church is silent on the destruction of life, we’re being negligent” https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2017/12/04/archbishop-naumann-if-the-church-is-silent-on-the-destruction-of-life-were-being-negligent/ (December 4, 2017)
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Also quoted in Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future: tributes and speeches (2003), edited by Kader Asmal & David Chidester. Jonathan Ball, p. 332
1990s, Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference (1992)
Context: Yes! We affirm it and we shall proclaim it from the mountaintops, that all people – be they black or white, be they brown or yellow, be they rich or poor, be they wise or fools, are created in the image of the Creator and are his children! Those who dare to cast out from the human family people of a darker hue with their racism! Those who exclude from the sight of God's grace, people who profess another faith with their religious intolerance! Those who wish to keep their fellow countrymen away from God's bounty with forced removals! Those who have driven away from the altar of God people whom He has chosen to make different, commit an ugly sin! The sin called Apartheid.
Condoleezza Rice (1954) American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4798183-110878,00.html The Guardian, 2003-11-15
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Regarding the Torture of Others (2004)
Context: The charges against most of the people detained in the prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan being nonexistent — the Red Cross reports that 70 to 90 percent of those being held seem to have committed no crime other than simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time, caught up in some sweep of "suspects" — the principal justification for holding them is "interrogation." Interrogation about what? About anything. Whatever the detainee might know. If interrogation is the point of detaining prisoners indefinitely, then physical coercion, humiliation and torture become inevitable.
Remember: we are not talking about that rarest of cases, the "ticking time bomb" situation, which is sometimes used as a limiting case that justifies torture of prisoners who have knowledge of an imminent attack. This is general or nonspecific information-gathering, authorized by American military and civilian administrators to learn more of a shadowy empire of evildoers about whom Americans know virtually nothing, in countries about which they are singularly ignorant: in principle, any information at all might be useful. An interrogation that produced no information (whatever information might consist of) would count as a failure.
“[Iraq is] not Vietnam, we have a government that has a support of the majority of the people.”
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
Late Show with David Letterman, June 16, 2005
2000s