Advocating Quote by Ali Khamenei
“Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.”
About This Quote
Source Speech: Human Rights Conference, 2015
Advocates of rights abroad sometimes suppress those rights at home.
In simple terms: Human rights advocates can be hypocritical.
Beware of double standards.
Themes
Mood
Type
When to use this quote
- policy making
- NGO work
- media criticism
- activism
Key Concepts
Questions to Reflect On
- What drives such contradictions?
- How can accountability improve?
Complex geopolitics may limit criticism.