Yousef Munayyer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Leadership #Humility #Hatred
Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
-- Yousef Munayyer

#Accountability #Torture
President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.
-- Yousef Munayyer

#Media #President #President Obama
Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more
-- Yousef Munayyer

#People #Strikes #Mourn
Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning violent Palestinian resistance while remaining silent in the face of Israeli crackdowns and political arrests, they are simply endorsing violence against civilians by one side instead of the other.
-- Yousef Munayyer

#Leader #Political #Resistance
The international community...cannot simply call on Palestinians to abandon violence in the face of Israeli occupation and remain silent when the nonviolent activists are politically repressed. This only reinforces the idea that the use of force reigns supreme and that Palestinians have no choice but to accept hardships at the hands of their Israeli lords.
-- Yousef Munayyer

#Hands #Ideas #Choices
Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.
-- Yousef Munayyer

#Police #Soldier #Prison

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.
There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Yousef Munayyer famous quotes

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