Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes

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Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.


Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!


Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.


Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.


But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.


As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.


You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.


We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.


They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.


The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

Roger Nash Baldwin Quotes

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Roger Nash Baldwin Quotes

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.


I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.


I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.


I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

Julian Assange Quotes

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Julian Assange Quotes

Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.


We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.


That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing start-up organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistle-blower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.


I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

Mary Antin Quotes

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Mary Antin Quotes

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.


We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.


The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.


The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.


One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.


In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.


As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.

Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.


Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.


If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.


I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.


I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.


I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.


I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.


Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!


Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.


The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Neil Armstrong Quotes

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Neil Armstrong Quotes

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.


It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.


I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.


I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.


Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.


As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.


Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.


We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.


The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Carl Andre Quotes

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Carl Andre Quotes

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.


Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.


I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.


A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
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