David Stern

“My Country
I don't have any caps left made back home
Nor any shoes that trod your roads
I've worn out your last shirt quite long ago
It was of Sile cloth
Now you only remain in the whiteness of my hair
Intact in my heart
Now you only remain in the whiteness of my hair
In the lines of my forehead
My country
-Nazim Hikmet”
― Fatima Bhutto, Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir

“Greece is internationally famous for three reasons. First it has more islands than people. Second, it used to be a part of Turkey. Third, its national hero, Alexander the Great, was a Yugoslavian.”
― Fatima Bhutto, Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir

“Bhutto’s case was not a trial of murder, rather it was the overt murder of a trial -”
― Fatima Bhutto, Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir

“People who look the other way when they see these war criminals are smaller criminals themselves.”
― Malalai Joya, Raising My Voice