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Breyten Breytenbach

"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."

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"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."

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Breyten Breytenbach
"In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath."

Dance

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Breyten Breytenbach
"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."

Circumstance

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Breyten Breytenbach
"In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear."

Reality

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Breyten Breytenbach
"Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness."

Critics

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Breyten Breytenbach
"Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War."

History

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Breyten Breytenbach
"The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests."

Power

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Breyten Breytenbach
"It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are."

Mistake

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Breyten Breytenbach
"The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests."

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Aberjhani

"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."

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Aberjhani

"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."

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Aberjhani

"I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances."

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Aberjhani

"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."

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Aberjhani

"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."

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Aberjhani

"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."

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Aberjhani

"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."

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Aberjhani

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."

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Aberjhani

"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."

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Aberjhani

"When many circumstances come together, one will get food to eat. When many circumstances come together, one gets to go hungry (one will not get food to eat). One goes hungry when many more circumstances come together. A greater number of circumstances are needed for an unfavorable situation, and less for favorable situation."

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