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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."
173
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
116
"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
96
"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!"
85
"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."
80
"Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands."
74
"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."
72
"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."
68
"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."
65
"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."
60
"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."
58
"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."
56
"Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile."
56
"He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical."
55
"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."
55
"I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza."
54
"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."
53
"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."
53
"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."
52
"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."
51
"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
51
"We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland."
51
"Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map."
50
"Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family."
50
"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."
49
"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."
49
"Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield."
49
"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."
49
"Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated."
48
"It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression."
46
"There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait."
45
"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."
44
"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."
44
"The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower."
43
"We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory."
43
"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."
42
"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."
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