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Aida Seif el-Dawla Quotes

born 1954 Egypt

Aida Seif el-Dawla (Arabic: عايدة سيف الدّولة; born 1954) is an Egyptian human rights activist. She is known for her advocacy for victims of torture, as well as her activism against female genital mutilation and violence against women.

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The only way for there to be no torture reports is for the state to stop torturing people.

We won’t stop working on fighting torture, even if they shut down the clinic.

If political parties adopted the principles of human rights, we would see a huge difference because there are things that cannot be done by human rights defenders alone.

If you are against the death penalty, you are against it all the way. So you would be against the death sentence for Hosni Mubarak and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi alike.

Human rights activism won’t replace political activism. But the human rights umbrella can unite people of different ideologies only if those people are genuinely committed to human rights without wavering.

It was crucial. It was an essential component of the revolution. All this is about rights.

At the end, it's all about rights. The right to have a dignified life and to live a decent standard. And to decide who rules and by which terms. Every revolution is about rights.

The rights movement was not tied to political activism... The human rights movement was not an avenue for political activism or a way to escape its failure.

The government cannot tolerate people on the streets. People can say whatever they want in closed rooms, but to take to the streets and raise slogans that other people might repeat after them, this is terrifying for the government.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aida Seif el-Dawla (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.