The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
Human
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.