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“Independence has made us Soft”

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“Independence has made us Soft”
— Houari Boumediene, The Battle Against Underdevelopment: Being The Text Of His Keynote Address To The United Nations' General Assembly, In The Special Session On Problems Of Raw Materials And Development
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“Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that indi...”
— Michael Barnett, Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
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“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any medi...”
— United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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“[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fi”
— United Nations
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“Weber also saw that a bureaucratic world contained risks. It produced increasingly powerful and autonomous bureaucrats who could be spiritless, driven only by impersonal rules and procedures, and w...”
— Michael Barnett, Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
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