"Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka."

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Source : Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.189, Verso

Alexander Cockburn

#Sri Lanka Quotes #People Quotes #Thailand Quotes

“Optimists are usually inexperienced.”
“Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.”
“I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.”

Source : "Reviving the love Labour's lost". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.
“If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.”
“Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself.”
“It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.”
“We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.”
“Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.”

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