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Chidi Odinkalu Quotes

born 1968 Nigeria

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu is a Nigerian human rights activist, lawyer, professor and writer. He was the former chairman of Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission (Nigeria) and was recently the senior team manager for the Africa Program of Open Society Justice Initiative.

Nigeria
Activists

Also known as: Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

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To question power, even when it is our own, is not sabotage but responsibility.

If we diminish gender discrimination, the biggest profiteers will be men.

Parents are the first line of human rights workers.

To insist on fairness, even when it costs us influence, is not weakness but strength.

To defend what is right when it is inconvenient is not betrayal, but leadership.

We must resist the temptation to reduce governance to ethnic possession.

The challenge of security is tied to our country's evolution.

We cannot just preach human rights—we must live them.

The Challenge of Security, Justice & Orientation have never been deeper than they are now in Nigeria.

Power is not an inheritance to be defended blindly; it is a trust to be exercised justly. When we collapse that distinction, we endanger not only others but ultimately ourselves.

Security, Justice & National Re-Orientation requires leadership that is legitimate.

Human life is a dignitarian project.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chidi Odinkalu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.