Palestine Think Tank » Quotes http://palestinethinktank.com Free Minds for a Free Palestine Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:03:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Free Minds for a Free Palestine Palestine Think Tank no Palestine Think Tank contact@palestinethinktank.com contact@palestinethinktank.com (Palestine Think Tank) 2008 Free Minds for a Free Palestine Palestine Think Tank http://palestinethinktank.com/audio/palestine_think_tank_podcast3.jpg http://palestinethinktank.com/category/quotes/ quote of the day http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/10/22/quote-of-the-day-9/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/10/22/quote-of-the-day-9/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:07:48 +0000 Guest Post http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/10/22/quote-of-the-day-9/ Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden, Basketball coach

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/10/22/quote-of-the-day-9/feed/ 0 quote of the day http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/10/22/quote-of-the-day-8/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/10/22/quote-of-the-day-8/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:02:31 +0000 Guest Post http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/10/22/quote-of-the-day-8/ The children appear traumatized. The teachers say that when they hear a loud noise they look to the sky and cry out and weep. They don’t know what the future holds. They deserve better.
Mia Farrow, after visiting Gaza as goodwill ambassador for UNICEF

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/10/22/quote-of-the-day-8/feed/ 0 thinking quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/09/16/thinking-quote-54/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/09/16/thinking-quote-54/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:25:14 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/?p=4452 The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.
Stephen R Covey

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/09/16/thinking-quote-54/feed/ 0 falastin quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/09/16/falastin-quote-53/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/09/16/falastin-quote-53/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:48:48 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/09/16/falastin-quote-53/ On Palestine it is equally important to remember that double standard holds there as well. The freely elected government of Palestine was summarily ostracized by the United States and Europe, by people who take every opportunity to lecture us about espousing democratic practices. 

America even waged war to impose democracy on Iraq. How does that make sense. For the sake of America's friends in the area, including Israel, instead of wearing kid gloves when dealing with Israel, you should be wearing boxing gloves.

And on Lebanon, get Israel out of Shaba'a Farms and the other Lebanese territories yesterday, not tomorrow.

Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Diplomat

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/09/16/falastin-quote-53/feed/ 1 falastin quote of the day http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/07/26/falastin-quote-of-the-day-3/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/07/26/falastin-quote-of-the-day-3/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:17:25 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/07/26/falastin-quote-of-the-day-3/ Yes, I know that some are saying the question of Palestine is no longer an Arab issue—that it is only a Palestinian problem. But an overwhelming majority of Arabs feel that it is a pan-Arab cause. We are one people with one history, one culture, one language. Millions still believe in what Nasser talked about, what he gave to us. Zionism has divided much of the Arab world. It fosters the elements of division and fragmentation in the land, people and culture of the Arab nation. But we still have a common cause, a common enemy. – George Habash

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/07/26/falastin-quote-of-the-day-3/feed/ 0 thinking quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/07/26/thinking-quote-53/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/07/26/thinking-quote-53/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:11:53 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/07/26/thinking-quote-53/ The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/07/26/thinking-quote-53/feed/ 0 thinking quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/06/15/thinking-quote-52/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/06/15/thinking-quote-52/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:11:40 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/06/15/thinking-quote-52/ If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
Carl Shurz – US politician (1829 – 1906)

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/06/15/thinking-quote-52/feed/ 0 falastin quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/06/15/falastin-quote-52/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/06/15/falastin-quote-52/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:05:15 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/06/15/falastin-quote-52/ Why should the Arabs hope for anything new from the new US president with regard to Palestine, having agreed so enthusiastically to Bush’s roadmap and having fixed their demands on Israel’s fulfilling its obligations under the plan after the Palestinians had carried out theirs? That they should not hope for much was clearly demonstrated during the war on Gaza. The Palestinian Authority (PA) on the West Bank not only repressed the resistance forces, but it also clamped down on peaceful demonstrations of solidarity with the people in Gaza. By so doing, the PA argued, the Palestinians would be in a position to insist that Israel meet its obligations under the roadmap because they were demonstrating their commitment to the destruction of terrorist infrastructure. The Arabs applauded Bush’s vision, and today they are applauding Obama’s. Bush envisioned a Palestinian state before the end of his term. Why expect anything from Obama, who has made exactly the same pledge?
From Cairo With Love
Azmi Bishara, Palestinian intellectual and exiled former MK

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/06/15/falastin-quote-52/feed/ 0 falastin quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/25/falastin-quote-51/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/25/falastin-quote-51/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:54:08 +0000 Guest Post http://palestinethinktank.com/?p=3562 This country is our country, this land is our land, Falastin (Palestine) is our homeland, we have no other homeland, and we shall remain faithful to our faith, values, history and the legacy of our forefathers.
Abdul Sattar Qassem, former presidential candidate and Professor of Political Science at al-Najah University in Nablus

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/25/falastin-quote-51/feed/ 0 thinking quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/04/thinking-quote-51/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/04/thinking-quote-51/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:26:49 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/04/thinking-quote-51/ Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker.

Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.

Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

And on issues that seem important to you,

stand up and be counted at any cost.

Thomas J Watson (1874-1956)

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/04/thinking-quote-51/feed/ 0 falastin quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/04/falastin-quote-50/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/04/falastin-quote-50/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:22:32 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/04/falastin-quote-50/ For a Palestinian everyday is a nakba because he/she has to fight against the same things that happened more than 60 years ago. While rulers who have their bellies a meter in front of them sit around a table pretending to solve the numerous problems that face their citizens while they can’t even agree among themselves.
"Realistic Bird", a blogger

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/04/04/falastin-quote-50/feed/ 1 falastin quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/27/falastin-quote-49/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/27/falastin-quote-49/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:02:26 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/27/falastin-quote-49/ Racial discrimination against the indigenous Palestinian people who became citizens of the State of Israel was formalized and institutionalized through the creation by law of a “Jewish nationality”, which is distinct from Israeli citizenship. No “Israeli” nationality exists in Israel, and the Supreme Court has persistently refused to recognize one as it would end the system of Jewish supremacy in Israel. The 1950 Law of Return entitles all Jews — and only Jews — to the rights of nationals, namely the right to enter “Eretz Yisrael” (Israel and the OPT) and immediately enjoy full legal and political rights. “Jewish nationality” under the Law of Return is extraterritorial in contravention of international public law norms pertaining to nationality. It includes Jewish citizens of other countries, irrespective of whether they wish to be part of the collective of “Jewish nationals,” and excludes “non-Jews” (i.e., Palestinians) from nationality rights in Israel.
Omar Barghouti

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/27/falastin-quote-49/feed/ 0 thinking quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/27/thinking-quote-50/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/27/thinking-quote-50/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:00:19 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/27/thinking-quote-50/ Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/27/thinking-quote-50/feed/ 0 thinking quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/17/thinking-quote-49/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/17/thinking-quote-49/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:07:20 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/17/thinking-quote-49/ Journalists must seek and speak the truth, for we are the voice of the voiceless millions.
Razia BHATTI,
Pakistani journalist

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/17/thinking-quote-49/feed/ 0 falastin quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/17/falastin-quote-48/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/17/falastin-quote-48/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:03:40 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/17/falastin-quote-48/ Why Palestine?
Because it is a just cause, a noble ideal, a moral quest for equality and human rights.
Edward Said

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/17/falastin-quote-48/feed/ 0 thinking quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/02/thinking-quote-48/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/02/thinking-quote-48/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:35:18 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/02/thinking-quote-48/ Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori, Educator

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/02/thinking-quote-48/feed/ 0 falastin quote http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/02/falastin-quote-47/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/02/falastin-quote-47/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:20:47 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/02/falastin-quote-47/ The death siege of Gaza is designed to go on igniting the Palestinian community. It is designed to go on exploiting disenfranchised groups inside Israel. It is designed to present the false image of an Israel seeking peace and holding its fire. It is designed, first and foremost, to prevent true political process and a just peace while simultaneously absolving Israel of responsibility for war. The siege imposed in the name of Israel's defense is designed to defend only Israel's powerful, to defend the policies of force and appropriation that serve them so well.
Rela Mazali

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/03/02/falastin-quote-47/feed/ 2 quote of the day http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/12/quote-of-the-day-7/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/12/quote-of-the-day-7/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:43:03 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/12/quote-of-the-day-7/ What do the colors of the Palestinian flag represent?

Green is for the land of Palestine,
White is for the peace in which the Palestinian people lived before they were made refugees,
Red is for their blood spilled trying to liberate their land, and
Black is for their life under occupation.

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/12/quote-of-the-day-7/feed/ 0 quote of the day http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/12/quote-of-the-day-6/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/12/quote-of-the-day-6/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:41:28 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/12/quote-of-the-day-6/ We will eat salt, but we will not bow our heads for anybody other than God, because we are faithful to the rights of our people and our nation. We will not betray it.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh

]]> http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/12/quote-of-the-day-6/feed/ 0 quote of the day http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/05/quote-of-the-day-3/ http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/05/quote-of-the-day-3/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:39:23 +0000 Mary Rizzo http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/05/quote-of-the-day-3/ I would propose to everyone in this room that the first question on our minds when dealing with a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude is not whether or not these people are terrorists, but how we can help them?
Samer Badawi, United Palestinian Appeal

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