Throughout history, numerous renowned leaders and activists have shared their thoughts on the Palestinian struggle for independence and dignity. Here are twenty immortal quotes that illuminate their perspectives.
1. 'Everything these days is made in China. Except courage. That's made in Palestine. — Anthony Bourdain
2. “Get the hell out of Palestine.” — Helen Thomas
3. “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” — Nelson Mandela
4. "The Palestinian people have the right to self-determination, the right to live in peace and security, and the right to a homeland." - Nelson Mandela
5. “The Zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history." — Malcolm X
6. We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967. — Ismail Haniyeh
7. I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land. — Hassan Nasrallah
8. We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms. — Ismail Haniyeh
9. If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine. — Hassan Nasrallah
10. From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support. — Noam Chomsky
11. I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports. — Rachel Corrie
12. I spent my whole childhood being told, 'Israel is surrounded by enemies who are trying to push it into the sea.' But can't Gaza feel the same way? Personally, I'm frozen in time. — Nathan Englander
13. “It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.” — Albert Einstein
14. “The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel’s colonization of Palestine.” — Jimmy Carter
15. "The Palestinian people have suffered too long. It is time for a just and lasting peace." — Jimmy Carter
16. “I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.” — Gamal Abdel Nasser
17. The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment. — Fidel Castro
18. "The Palestinian people have a right to live in dignity and to determine their own future." — Desmond Tutu
19. “Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.” — Franz Kafka
20. “In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can’t talk about Palestine.” — John Cusack
21. “Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.” — Mahatma Gandhi
