Amr Awad Salim

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”
― Muhammad Ali

“ما وقفت أمامك مرة يا حبيبتي إلا قلت في نفسي:من هنا يبدأ ما لا يدرك.”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, أوراق الورد

“هل عرفت فيه الانسان الذى يخفى احتقاره لنفسه تحت مضطهر من القوة , و الذي يبرر ضعفه بنظريات عقيمة ؟الانسان الذى ينمو على حساب الآخرين ,كالنباتات المتسلقة, و الذى لا يشعر بالثقة الا اذا سحق كل ارادة تتصدرى لاراداته”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح