Florencio Abad quotes

“If it doesn't happen, the continuing oppression will be met by more resistance from a less tolerant populace which wants a democratic restoration. And that resistance will only invite further oppression.”
-- Florencio Abad

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“As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members at the Manila Hotel.”
-- Florencio Abad

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“Philippine education is in crisis”
-- Florencio Abad

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“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”

Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”

“My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’”

“There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.”

“The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance”

Source : "A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Book by Daniel Byman, p. 170, June 15, 2011.

“A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.”

“Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.184, Zed Books

“No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.”

“Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”

Source : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.88, Courier Corporation

“Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon" by Gunter Brus, edit by Monika Faber, Actar, (p. 226), 2005.