• It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

  Breyten Breytenbach
  South African writer and painter
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. circumstances
2. conditions
3. situation
4. rights
5. surely

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It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal. by : Breyten Breytenbach

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