Allies Quotes - Page 28

• Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.

  Maxine Waters

  Jobs, Thinking, Losing Friends

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• All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  White, America, Lynching

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• I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album." I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs.

  Donnie Fritts

  Song, Albums, Said

  "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 08, 2015.

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• The Illuminati bankers rule the world through debt, which is money they create out of nothing. They need world government to ensure no country defaults or tries to overthrow them. As long as private bankers, instead of governments, create money the human race is doomed. These bankers and their allies have bought everything and everyone.

  Henry Makow

  Country, World Government, Race

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• This is a good deal for the United States, north Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons. The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments. ...Only as it does, so will North Korea fully join the community of nations.

  William J. Clinton

  Commitment, Korea, Community

  "Gingrich: North Korea is a 'genuine threat' to the world", www.foxnews.com. August 8, 2017.

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• It's a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq's oil.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mass Destruction, Israel, Oil

  Iraq War speech, January 29, 2003.

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• I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership. The specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.

  Rick Perry

  Leadership, Country, Walking Away

  "Rick Perry tells Republicans to work harder for black votes" by Alex Wilts, uk.reuters.com. July 3, 2015.

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• All I can tell you is that I know the enemy, allies, and troops hear what I say.

  George W. Bush

  Enemy, Troops, Knows

  "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, Believe, Rights

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider's web, was... irrecoverably broken at a touch.

  Gilbert Burnet

  Strong, Kings, Powerful

  Gilbert Burnet (1840). “Bishop Burnet's history of his own time”, p.397

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• The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Friends, Children, Struggle

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• What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

  Elie Wiesel

  Fall, Men, Triumph

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.97, Schocken

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• After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Germany, Looks, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well.

  Tim Wise

  Writing, Color, Years

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• Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy. As a citizen, this makes me sit up and take notice. This is a concept of self-imposed isolation, a defense strategy that sees Russia surrounded by enemies.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Army, Two, Russia

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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• A Warrior knows that an angel and a devil are both competing for his sword hand. The devil says: "You will weaken. You will not know exactly when. You are afraid." The angel says: "You will weaken. You will not know exactly when. You are afraid." The Warrior is surprised. Both the angel and the devil have said the same thing. The devil continues: "Let me help you." And the angel says: "I will help you." At that moment the Warrior understands the difference. The words may be the same but these two allies are completely different. And he chooses the angel's hand.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Warrior, Hands

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• What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Men, No Friends

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, October 24, 1991.

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• Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Men, Giving

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• the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.

  Deborah Harkness

  War, Requirements, Firsts

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.408, Penguin

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• [Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

  Aristophanes

  War, Winning, Men

  "Lysistrata". Book by Aristophanes, 411 BCE.

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• A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

  Anna Godbersen

  Sometimes, Natural, Young

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• It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I passed one back that read: beware I am as awful as people say and worse. She laughed and I had a friend. She didn't become my Ally and I didn't ask her to or want her to but she became my friend and that was more than anyone else was willing to do.

  James Frey

  Class, People, Awful

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.119, Anchor

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• I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Men, British, Interest

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• I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

  Elie Wiesel

  America, President, Bombs

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• I don't watch myself gener­ally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.

  Steve Martin

  Watches, Accidents

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