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Quotes by Activist
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
180
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
126
"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
115
"Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit."
100
"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."
99
"Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!"
98
"Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands."
90
"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
85
"The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged."
83
"A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives."
74
"He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical."
74
"Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom."
74
"Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails."
74
"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."
73
"I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza."
71
"Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile."
71
"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."
67
"Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs."
65
"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other."
65
"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."
62
"Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family."
62
"Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield."
62
"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace."
62
"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression."
61
"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
60
"Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map."
60
"Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that."
59
"Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated."
59
"What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied."
58
"What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?"
58
"The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world."
57
"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness."
56
"The FBI has always supported big business and big government."
56
"There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait."
56
"We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland."
56
"Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression."
55
"To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft."
54
"The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being."
54
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