"I
am a free human being grateful to be alive and disturbingly, restlessly
challenged in this at once despicable, ethereal, ephemeral world of
devastating cruelty and sublime beauty..."
"The prosecution of
these individuals offers a strand of legal justice to me. Other forms
of justice have taken place in my soul, one being the process of
learning to forgive, an act independent of a prosecution..."
"I entered the human rights field as a natural progression of and
response to who I am as a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide, a
Christian bestowed with great opportunities and blessings, and a human
being who desires more than just success but significance..."
"Any act of intimidation, any threat, any form of violence is
fundamentally COWARDICE. And I refuse to give credence or energy to
cowards, little boys in men’s clothing pretending to exercise power. I
believe in the strength and justice of moral power over physical, brute
power. As Martin Luther King, Jr. articulated, the long arc of history
bends toward justice and I want to take part in the bending; fear
paralyzes and inhibits. So it is best to focus on the bending “toward
justice” and not focus on the cowardice of others..." (Excerpts).
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