As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.
Ishmael Beah
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Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African...
CAROLYN SEE Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
ANNA LINDH In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, jo...
ISHMAEL BEAH I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral ...
ISHMAEL BEAH A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your bra...
ISHMAEL BEAH We must strive to be like the moon.' An old man in Kabati repeated this sentence often... the adage ...
ISHMAEL BEAH The thing that really gets to me is that countries are in the news only when things get out of hand....
ISHMAEL BEAH Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare wa...
ISHMAEL BEAH I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war...
ISHMAEL BEAH I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life...
ISHMAEL BEAH I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like American...
ISHMAEL BEAH Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wis...
ISHMAEL BEAH We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in...
ISHMAEL BEAH The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we ha...
ISHMAEL BEAH My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to...
ISHMAEL BEAH It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always...
ISHMAEL BEAH What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you dest...
ISHMAEL BEAH We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not sp...
ISHMAEL BEAH Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of t...
ISHMAEL BEAH It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most importan...
ISHMAEL BEAH We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what i...
ISHMAEL BEAH But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was mo...
ISHMAEL BEAH I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I...
ISHMAEL BEAH I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having ...
ISHMAEL BEAH There's so much focus and interest about what happens during war, but very little about what hap...
ISHMAEL BEAH For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the o...
ISHMAEL BEAH I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to...
ISHMAEL BEAH Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and ...
ISHMAEL BEAH After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to writ...
ISHMAEL BEAH In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which be...
ISHMAEL BEAH I took out my grenade and put my fingers inside the pin. 'Do you boys want this to be your last meal...
ISHMAEL BEAH ...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.
ISHMAEL BEAH Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as co...
PETER DRUCKER Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as co...
PETER F. DRUCKER I am very frustrated. I am upset about it, and it's not right. It's like they violated my rights as ...
BERTHENA DORINVIL If freedom isn't free and people's rights are being violated and suppressed, then Governments have N...
ELW-RETA BARNES Children are rescued from abortion to be killed in war as soldiers.
ILKIN SANTAK Call me Ishmael.
HERMAN MELVILLE When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper edu...
SHIRIN EBADI Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair eco...
POPE FRANCIS The first amendment problems were paramount for us. So we decided that the ban violated our rights a...
JAMES ROGERS I'm not an unreasonable person, but I feel that my rights have been violated.
ANDY MARTIN There's no pride in having been a child soldier.
EMMANUEL JAL We are alleging on behalf of a lot of different people that have been beaten by the Westminster poli...
DAVID LANE European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly ar...
CARLES PUIGDEMONT As a young child, I suffered all sorts of digestive problems and was constantly under the weather.
JAMEELA JAMIL If one business' rights are violated, it opens the door for the mayor and police to shut down other ...
JOSEPH ROBINSON This man gave up his life for all of us just as if he were in a war on foreign land. He was a soldie...
DONNIE WILLIAMS We think the punishments given to those who have severely violated human rights are very light and u...
KARIM RAHIMI Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be nex...
DASHANNE STOKES You are a very poor soldier: a chocolate cream soldier!
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The president has no right to talk about freedom and democracy in a country where human rights have ...
DAVID GAMKRELIDZE The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth...
STONEWALL JACKSON The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth...
THOMAS J. JACKSON Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
EMMANUEL JAL The question that remains unanswered and keeps coming to the fore is ‘Are the punishment schemes f...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT You learn and grow with your child. There are some things books cannot teach you. Your child will te...
NATALIE PHILLIP I'm a freewheeling flower-child falling down the stairs constantly.
BEN HOPKINS I think since the date of his arrest, my client has been held illegally. I think his constitutional ...
DARRELL DUNHAM As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.
MICHELLE FAIRLEY I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
DANNY GLOVER I feel as a small class, it doesn't present a problem, ... I feel no zoning laws are being violated.
DANIEL HOFFMAN Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES No matter how many times you forgive- there comes a time when you gather the smithers of your violat...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST A child who feared all would say nothing, a soldier for survival who has nothing left to fear will t...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Are your rights to protest more important than my rights to grieve?
JULIE MACKENZIE Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensi...
MAYIM BIALIK Searching Jane and Mary Doe for evidence beyond the scope of the warrant and without probable cause ...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain ri...
JIMMY STEWART As for relegated/delegated responsibility to ensure organizational software licensing compliance, ma...
ROBERT E. DAVIS Pursue your passion, work with your intuition learn as a child and adapt as water.
PUSHPENDRA MEHTA As artists, we are constantly becoming.
CREATIVLY And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
BIBLE As a child, your parents are responsible for what you'll become.
As an adult, you're responsible to ...
ANDREW ZURRO When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you beco...
PABLO PICASSO There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warri...
BEN FOSTER We are going to address them on issues concerning child rights before we bring them to the Police.
ANNET KURUI I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A wo...
KAILASH SATYARTHI Be a soldier; sacrifice your blood, sweat and tears for love.
SCOTTIE SOMERS In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN If you're part of the chain of events that make that happen, then your human rights responsibility a...
ALEX NEVE You are your true self, when you recognize your being a child, being an adult and a elderly person a...
MAURICE SPEES As a Christian, we are to constantly review our believe system.
SUNDAY ADELAJA My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.
ZACHARY TAYLOR I was born as a soldier and will die as one.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If yo...
PABLO PICASSO He was in the military and so was his son. He has seen it from both sides, as a soldier and as a fam...
LISA READING And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
BIBLE In this life it is good to have the experience of raising a child from infant stage to adulthood,be ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
WADADA LEO SMITH A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's s...
HILARY THAYER HAMANN This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rag...
LOUNG UNG The Labor Department increased the fines in this case because Target had previously violated the chi...
CORLIS SELLERS Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from ...
JODY WILLIAMS When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you becom...
PABLO PICASSO In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick...
KIESZA A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The LAPD criminally, intentionally and brutally violated the rights of tens of thousands of people w...
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