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Quotes by Activist

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."


"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."

"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness."

"The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people."

"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment."

"To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft."

"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing."

"What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?"

"We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business."

"But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price."

"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers."

"The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you."

"History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world."

"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."

"But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour."


"The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach."

"In all cases our stance will be determined by what serves the interests of the Palestinian people."

"On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable."

"By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that."

"Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism."

"I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid - if you are afraid, you can't move forward."

"I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics."

"The FBI has always supported big business and big government."

"Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open."

"Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be."

"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."

"We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat."

"Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred."

"In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine."

"As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement."

"There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement."

"What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?"

"Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?"

"Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive."
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