Mourid Barghouti famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.
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The fish, Even in the fisherman's net, Still carries, The smell of the sea.
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Behind me the world, ahead of me my world.
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The Danger of a Single Storyâ€, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story, and to start with, “secondly.
-- Mourid Barghouti -
The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story, and to start with, “secondly.
-- Mourid Barghouti
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
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Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
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