Abbas > Abbas's Quotes

“Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.”
― Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

“Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work.”
― Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

“I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone.”
― Ayi Kwei Armah

“others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but a necessary, indispensable connection; that nothing good can be created that does not of its very nature push forward the destruction of the destroyers.”
― Ayi Kwei Armah

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure'- grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

“We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
― Ernesto Guevara

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“After graduation, due to special circumstances and perhaps also to my character, I began to travel throughout America, and I became acquainted with all of it. Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I have visited, to some extent, all the other Latin American countries. Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger and disease; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money; with the stupefaction provoked by the continual hunger and punishment, to the point that a father can accept the loss of a son as an unimportant accident, as occurs often in the downtrodden classes of our American homeland. And I began to realize at that time that there were things that were almost as important to me as becoming famous for making a significant contribution to medical science: I wanted to help those people.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.”
― Che Guevara, Che Guevara Talks to Young People

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.”
― Che Guevara

“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”
― Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

“A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.”
― Che Guevara

“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
― Che Guevarra

“Dejeme decirie,
a risego de parecer ridiculo,
que el revolucionario verdadero
esta guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor.

Let me say,
at the risk of seeming ridiculous,
that the true revolutionary
is guided by great feelings of love.”
― Ernesto Guevara

“This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.”
― Ernesto Guevara

“Don't Shoot! I'm Che. I'm worth more to you alive than dead!”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara