Justice & Law Quote by Shirin Ebadi

Ebadi’s line doesn’t romanticize violence; it weaponizes the word “naturally” to drag the listener away from moral panic and toward causality. As a lawyer and human-rights advocate, she’s making an argument in the grammar of evidence: terrorism isn’t an inexplicable evil that blooms in a vacuum, it’s a predictable outcome in an environment engineered to strip people of dignity, rights, and the tools to interpret their suffering.

The specific intent is preventative and prosecutorial at once. By pairing “humiliated” with “rights… violated,” Ebadi frames radicalization as a response to both social degradation and institutional failure. Humiliation is intimate, visceral; rights violations are systemic, bureaucratic. Put together, they suggest a trap: the state (or occupying power, or corrupt authority) injures people twice, first in their bodies and status, then in their legal standing. “Proper education” arrives as the missing exit sign. Not schooling as status, but as civic literacy: the ability to imagine remedies besides revenge, to navigate courts, politics, nonviolent organizing.

The subtext is a rebuke to simplistic security narratives. If you treat terrorism purely as a policing problem, you end up producing the very conditions that feed it: raids, arbitrary detention, collective punishment, propaganda-friendly humiliation. Ebadi’s phrasing also risks controversy by sounding deterministic, but that’s part of its rhetorical force. She’s staking a hard claim: ignore dignity and rights long enough, and someone else will offer a violent script that feels like agency.