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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."
213
"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
161
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
157
"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."
146
"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!"
145
"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."
141
"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."
138
"Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands."
134
"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."
132
"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."
123
"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."
121
"I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza."
119
"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."
117
"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."
115
"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."
114
"He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical."
113
"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment."
111
"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."
110
"Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile."
107
"Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield."
107
"Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map."
104
"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"
103
"Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family."
102
"What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?"
102
"We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland."
101
"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."
100
"The FBI has always supported big business and big government."
98
"The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon."
97
"Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated."
96
"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers."
94
"Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent."
94
"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."
93
"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
93
"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."
91
"There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait."
91
"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness."
90
"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing."
90
"But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price."
90
"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."
90
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