"When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress."

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Source : "National Broadcast Exclusive: Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Speaks From Exile". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 10, 2005.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#People Quotes #Care Quotes #Arms Quotes

“I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.”
“Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.”
“Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.”
“A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.”
“I fired the ball for the purpose of giving those dudes to understand upon what ground I stood, believing that those of this class who believe that there are no women capable of taking care of themselves when young, would inform their friends that they might be in danger of their lives if they approached me.”
“When I was released by the Americans I read historian Trevor Roper's book, 'The Last Days of Hitler'. Throughout the book like a red line, runs an eyewitness report by Hanna Reitsch about the final days in the bunker. I never said it. I never wrote it. I never signed it. It was something they invented. Hitler died with total dignity.”
“I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.”
“In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.”

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