Human rights Quote by Nataly Kelly

“I translated the laws which pertain to our people into German and plan to read them aloud in our next community meeting. Whenever impudent…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

— Nelson Mandela

“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value…

— Virginia Woolf

“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.”

— Nataly Kelly

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

“The loss of freedom, tyranny, abuse, hunger would all have been easier to bear if not for the compulsion to call them freedom, justice,…

— Anne Applebaum

“Article 19 1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference. 2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this…

— International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

“It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.”

— Bryant McGill

“Freedom doesn’t give you the license to do whatever the hell you want. It doesn’t give you the license to, excuse my language, piss…

— Jessica Zafra

“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea…

— Amara Lakhous

“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or frequent—makes possible.…

— David Bentley Hart

“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function, preserving the…

— Matthew Battles