George Habash Quotes
As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well.
Habash, George. "Address to the Sixth National Congress." Sixth National Congress of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, July 2000, Damascus.
See Thomas Jefferson: {605051} for a somewhat similar notion.
Also inscribed inside the pedestal of the Statuary of Liberty.
One of the great ironies is that she had absolute power over everyone in the Russian empire and serfdom was entrenched in Russia. However, she was far more enlightened than the Russian rulers who preceded her.
Marion was the initiator of Guerilla Warfare and he and his men traveled lightly spending much time in the South Carolina swamps. They had few supplies and when chased by the British could not stop to hunt. The British called him the “Swamp Fox”. The American colonists at this point still thought of the British as “their countrymen.”
The critic observed that the South would not give up their slaves voluntarily and that and that vigorous abolition pressure on the South would lead to war and asked Angelina if she would want a civil war. Grimke’s response was predictive of what happened—the most terrible was in U. S. History to end the most terrible cruelty and persecution in American history. Note that she herself was willing to die to end slavery. See {629094}.
The Cherokee were settled Indians with farms and ranches. These lands were coveted by many whites and many including President Andrew Jackson was trying to get the Cherokee to trade their land for land in the Oklahoma Territory, despite the white promises of the past Ross took the case to the Supreme Court which ruled that the Cherokee land was theirs and it must be protected for them by the government. But President Andrew Jackson, disobeying the Supreme Court Opinion, forced the Cherokee at gun and bayonet point onto the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, totally reneging on this quotation and deeds and promises of the past.
George Habash (Arabic: جورج حبش), also known by his laqab "al-Hakim" was a Palestinian Christian politician who founded the left-wing secular nationalist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Habash served as Secretary-General of the PFLP until 2000, when ill health forced him to resign.
