05:34 am - QotD
"[...] quando se trata de preconceitos, eu o conheço nas minhas entranhas, eu sei o que é preconceito. Talvez seja a doença mais perversa impregnada na cabeça do ser humano." -- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 2008-06-12
"[...] when it's about discrimination I know it in my guts, I know what discrimination is. Maybe it's the most perverse disease rooted in the human mind."
[Note that machine translations, a human translation, and the
part-description-part-quote version in English-language news reports
all differ slightly. The quote above is from a transcript, and the
translation by a friend. The version in a
news article that
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linked
to (which was how I heard about it) said, "He also called
homophobia 'the most perverse disease impregnated in the human
head.'" (The speech was delivered at a national GBLT
conference, which I presume is the reason 'prejudice' or
'discrimination' was boiled down to 'homophobia' in the article.)]