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Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

~Amal Clooney

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If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.

~Amal Clooney

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Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of state repression makes a mockery of the rule of law.

~Amal Clooney

Topics: After Because Court Death Different Fact Him In Fact Law Makes Mockery Opponent Out Political Repression Rule Rule Of Law Sentencing Shooting Show State Street System Taking Tool Trial Using Worse

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There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors that is not ever seen.

~Amal Clooney

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Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.

~Amal Clooney

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As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.

~Amal Clooney

Topics: Bond Culture Experience Experiences Face Geography Go May Minority Only Religion Share Shared Struggles Through Women

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My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.

~Amal Clooney

Topics: Arabic Born Hope Lebanon Means Name War I Was Born

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I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it.

~Amal Clooney

Topics: About Almost Anyone Anyone Else Because Career Confidence Doing Done Else Enough Excited Follow Guts Know Made Me Other People Question Remember Something Stages Try Where I Remember

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I hate the idea that you somehow, as a human being, have to be put in a box. There's no reason why lawyers can't be fun - or actresses can't be serious.

~Amal Clooney

Topics: Actress Being Box Fun Hate Human Human Being Idea Lawyers No Reason Put Reason Serious Somehow Why You

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I think it's important for tourists to know the facts of what's happening in the Maldives. I don't think people realize that there's a flogging taking place a kilometer away when they're sunbathing in their resort.

~Amal Clooney

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Activist

Born: February 3rd, 1978

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