"Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer."

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Source : Speech during the presentation of the new national symbols, October 19, 1978.

Nur Muhammad Taraki

#Strong Quotes #Government Quotes #Class Quotes

“When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.”
“We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.”

Source : "The route to a sustainable future". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2005.
“158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block”
“Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe. For me itâ€™s more a synonym. I read a picture not for whatâ€™s really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.”

Source : "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.
“I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.”
“I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted,”

Source : "Rounding Third: MLB does the right thing with Cabrera ruling". www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.
“Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.”
“People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own meaning to the music, and thats great when this happens because it shows its striking a chord.”

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