"...Instead of being the currency of a social justice or conscience-driven movement, "human rights" has increasingly become the specialized language of a select professional cadre with its own rites of passage and methods of certification. Far from being a badge of honor, human rights activism is, in some places I have observed it, increasingly a certificate of privilege."
-A quotation from Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, in the opening of Pathologies of Power, a book by Paul Farmer
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