"We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position... The American people have changed."

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Source : "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks". Jimma Times, July 30, 2010.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#Running Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.”
“But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or encourage us to change our thrust. I want people to be able to pick up this book in the future no matter what's going on in the world, and appreciate it on its own merits, not for any perceived winks at the headlines.”

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“Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.”
“O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.”
“Youâ€™re the world to me,â€ I whisper onto her lips. â€œI hope you never forget that.â€ â€œIâ€™ll never forget,â€ she whispers back.. â€œBut if I ever do, for whatever reason, I hope youâ€™ll always find a way to remind me.â€ ...â€œAlways.”
“Isnâ€™t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3Â Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
“My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.”
“If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.”

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