Rachel Corrie Quotes


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.


Citations

Corrie, Rachel. Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie. W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.

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Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie
  • Born: April 10, 1979
  • Died: March 16, 2003
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Activist

Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American activist and diarist. A member of the pro-Palestinian group International Solidarity Movement (ISM), she was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) armored bulldozer in a southern Gaza Strip combat zone during the height of the second Palestinian intifada under contested circumstances.