Golda Meir Quotes

We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

Death is better than slavery.

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

The road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

One must not forget, however, that Russia had to free herself from the most frightful mis-government ever inflicted upon a long-suffering people.

I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.

At the moment of greatest love, there is greatest fear, and at the moment of enormous repression, there is resistance, and therefore a chance at revolutionary change.

I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.

I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad.

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

I know why the caged bird sings.