"It is our responsibility as the stronger party [Israel], as the occupying power, to convince the Palestinians that they can achieve their basic national aims, their just national aspirations, without violence. Unfortunately, the behavior of the Sharon administration, and before this of the Barak administration, has shown the Palestinians the opposite: namely, that they will achieve nothing without violence."

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Source : Source: progressive.org

Uri Avnery

#Party Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Israel Quotes

“To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.”
“Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.”
“[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.”
“Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!”

Source : Richard Price (1790). “A Discourse on the Love of Our Country: Delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the Meeting-house in the Old Jewry, to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in Great Britain”, p.50
“The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it”
“Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.”
“Bury you with Satan, to hell then I bury ya. I'm like Lucifer the unforgiven, cast out of heaven, I much rather rule in hell than be a servant. A hell on earth survivor means you better be a earner.”

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