Yaya DaCosta quotes
I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
Йайа ДаКоста
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Yaya DaCosta quotes
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
Йайа ДаКоста
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Yaya DaCosta quotes
We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.
Йайа ДаКоста
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Yaya DaCosta quotes
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
Йайа ДаКоста
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Yasser Arafat quotes
If there is any Arab problem we can solve it inside the Arab League. But we are going to deal with the other side, with the Israelis.... It is not me who will decide who will invite, to speak frankly. It is not me, it is not the Arab side, it is not the Israelis who will decide who will invite.
Ясир Арафат
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Yasser Arafat quotes
Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.
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Yasser Arafat quotes
We said we are ready to establish our independent state in any part from which the Israelis withdraw or which is liberated. Any part. The moment they withdraw from Gaza, I will establish my state there in Gaza.
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Yasser Arafat quotes
[Alexander Haig and Ariel Sharon ] casualties in this war were more than in all the previous Arab - Israeli confrontations. If you remember, it is the only war [in 1982] which hasn't a hero among the Israeli generals.
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The Amman Agreement failed because there was American pressure, and Israeli pressure, on Jordan to deal alone.
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Yasser Arafat quotes
I send my condolences, and the condolences of the Palestinian people to American President Bush and his government and to the American people for this terrible act....We completely condemn this serious operation.... We were completely shocked.... It's unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable.
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Yasser Arafat quotes
It is another face in the new atmosphere of many leaders inside Israel. No doubt it is something new. Actually, Ezer Weizman is a Palestinian. He was born in Haifa.
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Yasser Arafat quotes
Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.
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Yasser Arafat quotes
Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.
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Yasser Arafat quotes
The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises...
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Yasser Arafat quotes
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...
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Yasser Arafat quotes
In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.
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Yasser Arafat quotes
[Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.
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Yasser Arafat quotes
Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God.
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Yasser Arafat quotes
I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.
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