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“To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him—two.”
“We want to get our army involved with the people in productive work and remind it constantly that, without patriotic training, a soldier is only a criminal with power.”
“I speak on behalf of the child, the child of the poor man, who is hungry and who furtively eyes the wealth piled up in the rich man's shop, a shop that is protected by a thick window, a window whic...”
“We wish to enjoy the inheritance of all the revolutions of the world, all the liberation struggles of the third-world peoples. We are trying to learn from the great upheavals that have transformed ...”
“We shall soon be celebrating the one-hundred- and-fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire. My delegation supports the proposal of Antigua and Barbuda for the commem...”
“In these tempestuous times, we can't leave our enemies of the past and the present the monopoly on thought, imagination, and creativity.”
“When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.”
“I would like to leave behind me the conviction that if we maintain a certain amount of caution and organization we deserve victory. ... You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amo...”
“While I was in Moscow, while I was in the Soviet Union, they made us visit many historical places, many museums but also the city of stars [Star City], where the Soviets train their cosmonauts. The...”
“The revolution and women’s liberation go together. We do not talk of women’s emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to t...”
“We must recognize today that it is normal for the wealthiest to be the greatest thieves. When a poor man steals it is merely a theft, a petty crime — it is solely about survival and necessity. The ...”
“Capitalism is the arsonist of our forests.”
“We must choose between champagne for a few or drinking water for all.”
“In this context, some quotes from Thomas Sankara, a champion of anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism, resonate: A conscious people cannot entrust the defense of their homeland to a group of men, w...”
“[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.”
“[T]here is no such things as Islamic terrorism, because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term Islamic terrorism has become widespread.”
“Not there's no Holocaust, let say they exaggerated the Holocaust. We don't say many people...but they say there's Holocaust but they are exagerating, so there's such perception of this event of thi...”
“They are not my forces. They are military forces that belong to the government.… I don't own them. I am [the] president. I don't own the country so they are not my forces.”
“The army is engaged in a crucial and heroic battle... on which the destiny of the nation and its people rests. The enemy is among us today, using agents to destabilise the country, the security of ...”
“I'm not a puppet. I wasn't made by the west to go to the west or any other country. I'm Syrian. I'm made in Syria. I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.”
