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"Mr President, I wonder what human rights we are talking about, when our economic policy creates an eminently class-ridden society.
If we really want to consider human rights, we will not do so in this House; let us go to the rest rooms so you can see the women working there. No relation of ours is working there; poor, respectable women from North Africa are working there.
So who is talking about human rights? Those who exterminated, who eliminated an entire race from the face of the earth? The Red Indians. Who is talking about human rights? Those who based their wealth on the natives in their colonies for centuries on end? Who is talking about human rights? Those who, with a beer in the evening, enjoy the charms of some beautiful, poor, weak girl from the former eastern bloc? Who is talking about human rights? Those who support and coexist with dictators who torture their people in order to invade another country? Or is that not what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq? Who is talking? Those who turn a blind eye to what has been happening for three years now in Iraq? Who is talking? Those who accept Turkey in Europe, when a month ago they murdered a Catholic priest there, burned the effigy of the ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Christians and set light to the synagogues?
I therefore am not prepared to talk about human rights. My conscience forbids me with everything it sees happening around it, with everything that we all allow to happen."@en1
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