Lyudmila Alexeyeva quotes
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“In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.”
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“In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.”
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“I hate it when people are wrongly convicted.”
-- Lyudmila Alexeyeva
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“A hungry man is not a free man.”
Source : "Hunger battle on food summit menu". www.cnn.com. June 10, 2002.
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 57), 1937.
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“Everybody is jumping up and down back in Russia. Probably lots of vodka, too.”
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
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