‘Surtout à notre époque où l’on aime mieux brusquer le succès que réaliser pas à pas une oeuvre longuement mûrie, tous les historiens du droit qui le liront, même si la nouveauté et l’hardiesse de son thème essentielle les laisse un peu hésitants, seront frappés de son évidente sincérité et rendront hommage à la conscience de ses recherches, à son sang juridique, à l’ingéniosité de ses idées’. – Inspired by the protest address by Professor Cleveringa. – 1940
“Article 7 of the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states that: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation.”
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Inspired by the pastor, 2021
“But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond these rather difficult times.” – Robert F. Kennedy
“My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” – Robert F. Kennedy
