Barghouti Palestine Quotes & Sayings

From my personal experience as an analyst and dance choreographer working in the midst of "conflict", I do not think that, in a situation of oppression, intellectuals have a choice of whether or not to reflect the impact of conflict on them and on their society. Oppression, in a way, forces itself upon their work, their creative process. Their basic choice seems to be, then, whether to passively reflect it, or to actively transcend it. Oppression, it seems, has its own way of touching everyone within its reach, irrespective of one's actual involvement in it or will to get involved in it. — Omar Barghouti

Peace without justice is equivalent to institutionalizing injustice. — Omar Barghouti

I didn't know this kind of love existed, the kind that can both shatter you to pieces and make you whole. — Nina Lane

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk. — Bill Gates

Jews don't camp ... The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. — Daniel Silva

I'm obsessed with coffee. My doctor says if I don't cut back, I am going to permanently damage my esophagus. No joke. — Matthew Gray Gubler

The final word belongs to one of Truman's aides, George Elsey. "It's all well and good to come along later and say the bomb was a horrible thing," he commented subsequently. "The whole goddamn war was a horrible thing. — William E. Leuchtenburg

Be as loving, gentle and tender with yourself, as you are with your children or your beloved. — Miya Yamanouchi

Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil. — Ayn Rand

Not only do the oppressed lose nothing when people of conscience boycott institutions that are persistently complicit in the system of oppression; in fact, they gain enormously from the ultimate weakening of this complicity that an effective and sustained boycott leads to. — Omar Barghouti

The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check. — Paul Watson

The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries,
The smell of the sea. — Mourid Barghouti

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. — Richard Steele

The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse. — Bayard Taylor

By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie ideas never seem to ask why any employer would hire someone at $8.23 if that person's services are only valued in the marketplace at, say, $5.00. — Lawrence Reed

I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older. — Jai Courtney

I was seventeen, very old, embarrassingly young, — Maya Angelou

BDS is perhaps the most ambitious, empowering, and promising Palestinian-led global movement for justice and rights. BDS has the capacity to challenge Israel's colonial rule and apartheid in a morally consistent, effective, and, crucially, intelligent manner. — Omar Barghouti

Never tell her that something is impossible, because she'll kill herself proving you wrong. — Kate Lattey

Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process. — Sanjay Kumar