"In the beginning, in 2003, there was the Iraqi resistance, which didn't want the US occupation, then they developed Al Qaeda, but even then it was never this monstrous, this inhumane and as misogynistic as what we're seeing now under ISIS."

-- Yanar Mohammed

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“And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.238, Scholastic Inc.
“One must observe the proper rites.”
“I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
“O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?”
“What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.”
“There isn't a color that I dislike. I think that every color has its own charm.”
“Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.”
“You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”

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