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Oleksandra Matviichuk
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“We live in a very interconnected world. … We can’t build fences and close our eyes to real problems of human rights in our world.”
Oleksandra Matviichuk (born 1983) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: She used to avoid police. Today, she teaches them." in Share America (8 April 2016)
“I don’t know what is in store for me or my family or my colleagues or my friends. But I know for sure that Ukraine will resist because we are fighting for our country, for our dignity, for our people, for our values. Russia tried to return us to the past which does not exist at all. We will never be a part of a restored Soviet Union. Putin will lose sooner or later.”
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Recorded in: Ukrainian human rights lawyer works on war crimes, fights for survival" in New York Post (5 March 2022)
“Women are currently represented in all areas of the country’s defence. Women serve in the Ukrainian army. Women have joined territorial defence units. Women take important political decisions. Women provide medical care. Women document Russian war crimes. You can see a significant number of women in every field of the social resistance to this invasion. At least in times of war, we suddenly seem to have gender equality in Ukraine. Women are currently at the forefront of the battle, equal to men.”
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Recorded in: No time for reflection, emotions or crying”" in New Eastern Europe (25 March 2022)
“I see from the general mood in the country that Ukrainians share the dream to rebuild our country and our destroyed cities together. They are committed to the successful democratic transformation of our country after the war. This dream encourages all of us to continue our struggle.”
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Recorded in: No time for reflection, emotions or crying”" in New Eastern Europe (25 March 2022)
“We live in very dramatic times, and political leaders of the world have to take historical responsibility because for decades, I’ve seen that political leaders behave like they believe the problems we face will vanish. But the truth is that these problems will not vanish. They have to take responsibility and to solve these problems for the next generation and not think only about the electoral period or the future of their own parties.”
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Recorded in: What the Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Ukrainian Human Rights Group Wants From the West" in TIME (7 October 2022)
“We live in a very interconnected workld and only spreading freedom can make our world safer. And if political leaders will not take this historical responsibility, people can take this historical responsibility. All of my experience as a human rights defender has showed me that ordinary people have much greater impact than they can even imagine. And massive mobilization of ordinary people around the world can change the world’s history much more quickly than any UN intervention.”
Oleksandra Matviichuk (born 1983) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What the Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Ukrainian Human Rights Group Wants From the West" in TIME (7 October 2022)
“The UN and its member-states should conduct international peace and security reform to create guarantees for all countries and their citizens, regardless of their participation or non-participation in military blocs or military capacity. Russia should be excluded from the UN Security Council for systematic violations of the UN charter.”
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Recorded in: Head Of Nobel-Winning Ukrainian Rights Group Calls For International Tribunal For Putin, Lukashenka" in Radio Free Europe (7 October 2022)
“I hope that we will be able to overcome the rage, because sooner or later the war will finish, and we will have to continue building a civilized world. Maybe, in such a crisis, you go beyond some borders like nationality or region, because we are humans. We see ourselves now like people who are fighting for freedom, for human values. For us it doesn’t matter if you are Ukrainians or not. We closely cooperate with Russian human-rights defenders, with Belarusian human-rights defenders. We understand their willingness to help is because we are all human.”
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Recorded in: Should Oleksandra Matviychuk Share the Nobel Peace Prize With Russians?" in The Atlantic (8 October 2022)
“The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to all people in Ukraine who are currently fighting for freedom in all its senses. For the freedom to be a free and independent state. For the freedom to develop the Ukrainian language and culture. For the freedom to have one’s own democratic choice and to build a country in which the rights of every person are protected, the government is accountable, the courts are independent, and the police do not beat peaceful student demonstrations.”
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Recorded in: Oleksandra Matviychuk`s speech at the press conference dedicated to the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize" (8 October 2022)
“We call on the international community to become their voice and join us in seeking their release. As well as the release of all political prisoners who fought against the authoritarian regimes in Russia and Belarus.”
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Recorded in: Oleksandra Matviychuk`s speech at the press conference dedicated to the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize" (8 October 2022)
“This award [Nobel Peace Prize] have two dimensions. The first dimension is connecting with award to not only to Ukrainian human rights organisation, Center for Civil Liberties, but to the whole Ukrainian people who are fighting for freedom in all senses. And second dimension is award for human rights defenders who, regardless of their authoritarian regimes, tries to build horizontal ties between each other in order to protect freedom and human rights in our part of the world where Russia try to occupy new territories.”
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Recorded in: Transcript from a telephone interview with Center for Civil Liberties" (8 October 2022)
“All my twenty years experience of defense, freedom and human rights shows me that common people have a much greater impact than they can even imagine. And massive mobilisation of the common people can change the world history quicker than UN intervention.”
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Recorded in: Transcript from a telephone interview with Center for Civil Liberties" (8 October 2022)
“There are people who will fight for you, who will fight for your rights, who will never leave you alone. And this understanding provides a coverage to continue the fight. And let my lessons learn from this story is that in many part of the world, human rights defenders, they’re not working in human rights field. They’re fighting for human rights. And sometimes because of the size of challenges this fight, it seems that they have no sense. But we have to continue our fight honestly, and result will unexpectedly be achieved.”
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Recorded in: Transcript from a telephone interview with Center for Civil Liberties" (8 October 2022)
“Like sometimes I feel myself that we are documenting pain, which burned us out, but parallel, I see and feel the huge wave of solidarity among the people in Ukraine and abroad. And ordinary people start to do unordinary things. And this energy can change a lot.”
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Recorded in: Transcript from a telephone interview with Center for Civil Liberties" (8 October 2022)
“First of all, I know Ukraine’s history. We have been fighting for freedom for hundreds of years, and we will never give up. Second, I know the Ukrainian people. Putin underestimated us, and so did the West.”
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Recorded in: Freedom Fighter" in National Review (9 October 2022)
“My first language was Russian. I switched to the Ukrainian language in school when I started to learn Ukrainian history and Ukrainian literature. I suddenly understood that my parents spoke Russian not because it was their choice but because they had been forced into it.”
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Recorded in: Freedom Fighter" in National Review (9 October 2022)
“So, in this war, we are fighting for freedom in all senses: the freedom to be an independent state, not a colony of Russia; the freedom to be Ukrainians, to have our own language and culture, as other nations of the world do; the freedom to have a democratic choice — a chance to build a country where the judiciary is independent, human rights are protected, the government is accountable, and the police serve the people.”
Oleksandra Matviichuk (born 1983) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Freedom Fighter" in National Review (9 October 2022)
“The problem of the Russian nation is that Russians have this imperialistic code, as a driver of their existence. I wish Russians could overcome this side of their nature. It’s a necessity, if Russians are to be happy and successful.”
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Recorded in: Freedom Fighter" in National Review (9 October 2022)
“Justice is costly, but it is also priceless.”
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Recorded in: Justice is Costly, but Also Priceless" in Coalition for the ICC (14 October 2022)
“We can’t end the war on our own, but nothing will change without the efforts of each individual. We will pay a high price to finally break away from the Russian civilizational space with its culture, where there is no gender equality, with its dominant violence. We need to prepare for a long marathon that we will win.”
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Recorded in: 18,000 episodes of war crimes through one heart. The story of human rights activist Oleksandra Matviychuk" in Hromadske International (20 October 2022)
“It’s very dangerous to live in the world where your security depends not on the rule of law but on whether your country is a part of a military bloc. That’s a dangerous line of development for humankind.”
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Recorded in: ‘Accountability gap’: Nobel peace prize winner warns Russian war crimes going unpunished" in The Guardian (26 October 2022)
“Time to take responsibility: Speech by Oleksandra Matviychuk at Nobel Peace Prize awarding ceremony", UkrInform, 10 December 2022”
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“Talking of the so-called Russian mass media, it has been obvious to me over these years that it is part of Russia’s military and industrial complex. They work exclusively for military purposes, they incite hatred, they program people to kill, they create an image of the enemy.”
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Recorded in: Russian propagandists should be on trial together with war criminals - Matviychuk", UKRINFORM, 1 January 2023
“Everything the UN stands for is at stake in Ukraine. If Putin is allowed to succeed, a new world will be born, in which larger states will once again be able to invade their neighbors with impunity. A brief period in human history, when the settled sovereign will of the people served as the basis for government, will end. Neo-imperial revisionist powers will create “spheres of influence” using economic pressure, political capture, disinformation, and military coercion to turn smaller neighbors into vassals. A world that is more open, connected, and safer will give way to one that is more closed, fragmented, and violent.”
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Recorded in: Ukraine’s Fight Is the World’s Fight" in Project Syndicate (28 April 2022)
“This story is about resistance to common evil, about the fact that freedom has no borders, and the values of human rights are universal. That human rights defenders build invisible horizontal connections in their societies to assert freedom and protect people in our part of the world, in which a monster is once again trying to rule. And who will lose sooner or later. And then peace will come. In no way should this award sound like an old narrative about fraternal nations. This story is about something else. This story is about the motto that I heard from my teacher, dissident and philosopher Yevhen Sverstyuk – “For our freedom and yours”
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Recorded in: Oleksandra Matviychuk`s speech at the press conference dedicated to the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize" (8 October 2022)