Rachel Corrie quotes
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“Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.”
-- Rachel CorrieSource : "The Death of Rachel Corrie" by Joshua Hammer, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2003.
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“I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive.... Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with”
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“We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.”
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“I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.”
-- Rachel CorrieSource : "Rachel's war", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.
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“I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.”
-- Rachel CorrieSource : Rachel Corrie (2009). “Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company
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“We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.”
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“People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.”
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“I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.”
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“Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.”
-- Rachel CorrieSource : "Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie".
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“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”
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“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”
Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”
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“Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.”
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Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
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