Quotes of Palestine - somelinesforyou

“ Our people will remain steadfast until a boy or a girl holds the flag of Palestine over Jerusalem, the capital of our Palestinian state. ”

- Yasser Arafat

“ We want peace in Palestine and will continue extending support to our Palestinian brethren. ”

- Pervez Musharraf

“ So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects. ”

- John Jay Chapman

“ Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; / Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: / The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. ”

- Bible

“ Remember the solidarity shown to Palestine here and everywhere... and remember also that there is a cause to which many people have committed themselves, difficulties and terrible obstacles notwithstanding. Why? Because it is a just cause, a noble ideal, a moral quest for equality and human rights. ”

- Edward Said

“ I don't think that anybody has any patience left for the way the PLO has conducted itself,... We know now, because of the arms shipment, that there is a close association between all of that violence and what is happening within the ranks... and the leadership of the PLO. ”

- Tom Daschle

“ It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East. ”

- King Hussein I

“ This is a very serious matter — that you have Syrian involvement in the assassination of the former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. ”

- Condoleezza Rice

“ It is only the first step that is difficult. ”

- Marie De Vichy Chaconne

“ The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? ”

- Judith Hayes
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