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Nya citat 2001-12-16
Varje människa skall underordna sig all den överhet hon har över sig. Ty det finns ingen överhet som inte är av Gud, och den som finns är förordnad av honom.
Rom 13:1
Ve dig som gör dig rik på andras ägodelar
— för hur länge? —
och hopar egendom som du tagit i pant!
Plötsligt skall de skuldsatta resa sig,
de skall vakna och få dig att darra,
och du blir själv deras byte.
Du som har plundrat så många folk
skall bli plundrad av alla de andra
till straff för det blod du utgjutit,
för ditt våld mot länder och städer
och mot alla som bor i dem.
Hab 2:6-8
Särskilt ärkebiskopen bör besinna skriftens ord i Rom 13:4 om ansvar: '...överheten bär icke svärdet förgäves, utan är en Guds tjänare, en hämnare, till att utföra vredesdomen över den som gör vad ont är'.
Mats Johansson, chefredaktör SvD, apropå ärkebiskopen KG Hammars kritik av USA:s bombningar av Afghanistan
Den som tror att dåtidens nazister och fascister var som skinnskallar och nynazister blir hjälplös som en nyfödd kattunge inför de verkliga hoten i det nuvarande skeendet.
Jan Myrdal
Det här är för alla revolutionärer, med fötterna på jorden och näven i vädret.
Fattaru
You show me a capitalist and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
Malcolm X 1964
Behöver vi tala om att filmens sensmoral är att det är illa att lyda kollektivet men helt okej att följa en stark (och helst snygg) ledare?
Niklas Wahllöf om filmen The Last Castle
The efficiency of the truly national leader consists mainly of preventing the people's attention from becoming divided,
and of always concentrating it on a single enemy.
Adolf Hitler
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
Malcolm X
He got the peace prize, we got the problem. ... If I'm following a general, and he's leading me into a battle, and the enemy tends to give him rewards, or awards, I get suspicious of him. Especially if he gets a peace award before the war is over.
Malcolm X, after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize
We were so hungry we were dizzy and we had nowhere to turn. Finally the authorities came in and we children were scattered about in different places as public wards. I happened to become the ward of a white couple who ran a correctional school for white boys. This family liked me in the way they liked their house pets.
Malcolm X on his childhood
It is not a case of our people ... wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.
Malcolm X 1964
I would like to point something out so that we'll understand each other better. I don't want you to think in the statements I made that I'm being disrespectful towards you as white people. I'm being frank. And I think that my statements will give you a better insight on the mind of a black man than most statements you get from most people who call themselves Negroes, who usually tell you what they want you to hear with the hope... that will make them draw closer to you and create a better possibility of getting from you some of the crumbs that you might let fall from your table. Well, I'm not looking for crumbs so I'm not trying to delude you.
Malcolm X 1960, at Boston University
Vi är en röst i en stor global kör som sjunger nästintill unisont. Det känns oerhört tillfredsställande att Sverige är med i den kören.
Göran Persson om den svenska regeringens inställning till USA:s bombningar av Afghanistan
What made Malcolm X Shabazz a great man, is that he had the guts to say what nine-tenths of American Negroes would like to say but don't have the guts to say.
Anonymous Chicago doctor 1965
Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.
Malcolm X
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
Malcolm X 1964
Många delar av den fattiga världen betraktar USA som Darth Vader.
John Lloyd i Financial Times
Mot hur många stater kan USA förklara krig utan att självt bli definierat som ett hot mot världsordningen?
Bryan Hehir
EU - när storföretagen själva får bestämma.
Jonas Sjöstedt, EU-parlamentariker (v)
Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, "We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight." What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made.
Malcolm X
I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.
Malcolm X
You know, right before he was killed he came down to Selma and said some pretty passionate things against me, and that surprised me because after all it was my territory there. But afterwards he took my wife aside, and said he thought he could help me more by attacking me than praising me. He thought it would make it easier for me in the long run.
Martin Luther King, Jr. about Malcolm X
We declare our right on this earth ... to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
Malcolm X 1964
That's absolute garbage, the fact is that before Saddam Hussein got himself into trouble in Iran, and then of course in Kuwait, they had invested massively in civilian infrastructure. Health care clinics, rural clinics, education, 10,000 schools scattered throughout the country, an educational and healthcare system which was the envy of all its Arab neighbours. Iraq had a very widespread food distribution system of its own before we got involved.
Denis Halliday on the claim that lifting sanctions would do no good, because the Iraqi regime does not care about its own citizens
They went way beyond the military. They destroyed schools, and hospitals and bridges, and roads, places of employment, factories, consumer, industry and so on. That's left massive unemployment to this day. They destroyed railways, domestic airports, including not just the production of oil which they bombed and missiled again and again, but they also wiped out Iraq's capacity to produce potable water, the sewerage systems were heavily damaged, water treatment plants were damaged. It was a very all-comprehensive attack. And that is still rather apparent today.
Denis Halliday on the attack on Iraq in 1991
We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.
Denis Halliday in 1998 on the sanctions against Iraq
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