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Forget the laws on human rights. If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do just what I did as mayor. You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because I'd kill you.

Dec 07, 2016

Rodrigo Duterte, Campaign speech
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I'd go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble also. I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill.

Dec 16, 2016

Rodrigo Duterte, reported in The Guardian
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America didn’t become the richest country in the world by practicing socialism, or the strongest country by denigrating its governing institutions, or the most talent-filled country by stoking fear of immigrants.

Feb 17, 2016

Thomas Friedman, The New York Times
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Wrongful convictions are a slow, torturous process. It would be so much simpler to be choked out and die at the hands of a cop than to spend the rest of your life in hell based on the malicious acts of a cop.

Dec 05, 2014

Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez, Letter to reporter Dan Slepian - Investigative Producer at Dateline NBC
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[In Pakistan], I had two options. One was not to speak and wait to be killed, and the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second.

Oct 10, 2014

Malala Yousafzai, Speaking to a crowd at Birmingham Library in Birmingham central England
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Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don’t…if you actually look at the bible or the Koran, and get your moral compass from there, it’s horrible – stoning people to death, stoning people for breaking the Sabbath. Now, of course we don’t do that anymore, but the reason we don’t do it is that we pick out those verses of the bible that we like, and reject those verses we don’t like. What criteria do we use to pick out the good ones and reject the bad ones? Non-biblical criteria, non-religious criteria. The same criteria as guide any modern person in their moral compass that has nothing to do with religion.

Sep 27, 2013

Richard Dawkins, CNN's “Fareed Zakaria GPS”
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The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

Aug 26, 2014

John Hickenlooper, USA Today
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In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn’t be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.

May 12, 2014

Rand Paul, New York Times
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