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Authors
Daoud Hari
"If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth." --
Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.10, Random House
Daoud Hari
#Beautiful Quotes
#Home Quotes
#Writing Quotes
“I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.”
“I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.”
“We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is what moves the stars through the heavens and the earth through its seasons. The final norm of judgment concerning the success or failure of our technologies is the extent to which they enable us to participate more fully in this grand festival.”
“It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.”
“The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.”
“Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.”
“In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.”
“No moral system can rest solely on authority.”
Source : Humanist Outlook (1968) introduction