Elia Suleiman Quotes
Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.
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I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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We owe it to his memory and the memory of so many other people who have been killed in the Lebanon, lost all their livelihoods, to ensure there is a democratic Lebanon and one which is fully sovereign within its borders.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.
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American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.
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In the face of a rapidly changing world, the people of our beloved country have once again demonstrated a commitment to hard work and courage. It is now evident that everything that occurs beyond our borders can have a profound impact upon how we live, the problems with which we have to grapple and the quality of life, which our people will enjoy.
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In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.
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I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
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I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
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You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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This melting pot of experiences, interests, educations, backgrounds, and cultures makes the U.S. truly amazing. It's how we can come together to come up with new ideas, to collaborate, and to innovate without having to think about borders.
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Human dignity should be without borders.
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We can't defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense. We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities. We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.
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Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
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A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.
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This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.
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There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.
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Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place.
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When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.
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Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.
