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Unity Dow
37 quotes
“It has turned out to be the most expensive and longest-running trial this country has ever dealt with. It has also attracted a lot of interest as well as a fair amount of bandwagon jumpers, both nationally and internationally, than perhaps any other case has ever done.'The Bushmen belong to an ethnic group 'that has been historically looked down upon,', said the judge - the names for them 'common terms of insult in the same way as nigger' and kaffir'.”
Unity Dow (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Judge Unity Dow on Botswana's most expensive trial" (December 17, 2006)
“It got me thinking about the issue on a broader scale, How do you retain a cultural identity, which everyone says is a good thing, without being isolated.”
Unity Dow (born 1959) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Unity Dow: Lawyer, Judge, Human-Rights Activist, and Now Columbia Law School Professor (29 October 2009) Retrieved 8 November 2021
“On a personal level, that was hard. It wasn't just my case, my issue, but the focus was on me personally. At the time I was young and thought everything was possible but there was a real cost both financially and emotionally. I always say at the start I was driving a BMW and by the end of the case I was in a pick-up truck. I had to take my kids out of private school and put them in public school.”
Unity Dow (born 1959) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: UN women report: Access to justice in Botswana" (July 6, 2011)
“I was born into a Botswana where there was no tarmac road, no telephone, where you had to hold water on your head and firewood as well. I think I saw my first refrigerator when I was a teenager.”
Unity Dow (born 1959) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Faces of Africa 07/16/2017 The Unity Dow Story" (July 17 2017), Retrieved 30 November 2021
“Reforming the African Union, will open great opportunities in areas of trade, employment and economic growth in Africa.”
Unity Dow (born 1959) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (November 16, 2018)
“'ultimately about a people demanding dignity and respect.”
“Botswana is emerging from a 'national shutdown'.”
Unity Dow (born 1959) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: WeekendPost, Dow: It is time to Speak Out" (November 2, 2020), Retrieved 30 November 2021
“The language of law is very masculine. The culture of law is so masculine. At one point, I started to think that it shouldn't be like this and that I have a right to be where I am.”
Unity Dow (born 1959) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Botswana: Unity Dow, a feminist lawyer", Retrieved 30 November 2021
“It wasn’t that simple. But in the end, I won. It not only changed the law on citizenship, so that men and women were equal in citizenship, it actually influenced other laws.”
Unity Dow (born 1959) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Botswana: Unity Dow, a feminist lawyer", Retrieved 30 November 2021
“I think I’m a nomad at heart, I’m just always moving. I need to be challenged, intellectually challenged. My legacy is to challenge myself”
Unity Dow (born 1959) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Botswana: Unity Dow, a feminist lawyer", Retrieved 30 November 2021
“It is a people saying in essence: "Our way of life may be different, but it is worthy of respect.”
“We may be changing and getting closer to your way of life, but give us a chance to decide what we want to carry with us into the future".'”
“I’m a lawyer and I’ve been a judge, but there’s one thing that I have not done so far and that is to make laws, I would love a plan to join politics and to run for a political office as a member of parliament and therefore join the legislature.”
“I guess I’m a lawyer first.”
“Judges are also important. But also the people before the judges are very important”
“We are a people in transition, a people in cultures that are weak in terms of our relationship to global power”
“There is no doubt that we always feel under assault, culturally that is, especially in terms of music, food, clothing.”
“No culture can remain isolated.”
“For me it’s about striking a balance between remaining true to ourselves in the light of cultural interaction and also about changing as a result of that interaction”
“We need to be bold and brave and to demand, of all our members of parliament, men and women, to initiate and/or support... legislative reforms.”
“We must reject any reforms that further solidifies power in any office or institution and demand a constitution that opens up spaces for greater participation of all, including women.”
“I am a firm believer in honest debate.”
“I take my right to think, a right enshrined in the constitution of Botswana, very seriously.”
“If I speak that which I do not believe in, I would be exercising my right to freedom of expression, while suppressing my right to think.”
“Action often starts with conversations.”
“The real dispute between the BDP leadership and myself is our competing versions of the nature of this country. I say it's a Republic. I say it's a democracy.”
“My statements in Parliament are protected by the Constitution.”
“Batswana are too smart not to see these fake accounts for what they are – weapons against free speech, weapons against dissent, weapons against accountability, weapons against democracy and ultimately weapons against Botswana.”
“We must expect France Museveni, perhaps with a new name and a new slant, to continue with his democracy-slaughtering antics.”
“Only when women are equal actors in the process can there be a legitimate claim that Africa is on the road to democracy.”
“Women have not been participants, on an equal basis with men, in the negotiation, formulation, development, and implementation of national constitutions.”
“My legacy is to challenge myself.”
“I take my right to think... very seriously.”
“The real dispute... is our competing versions of the nature of this country. I say it's a Republic. I say it's a democracy.”
“We must reject any reforms that further solidifies power in any office or institution...”
“There is no doubt that we always feel under assault, culturally that is...”
“For me it’s about striking a balance between remaining true to ourselves... and also about changing as a result of that interaction”