I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Izzeldin Abuelaish
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.”
“...you shouldn’t hate something you don’t know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.”
“For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.”
“It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.”
“How come a Palestinian child does not live like an Israeli child? Why do Palestinian children have to toil at any manner of hard jobs just to be able to go to school? How is it that when we are sick. we can't get the medical help the Israeli kids take for granted?”
“It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically.”
“Traveling has become such a miserable experience that no Palestinian does it, except those who absolutely have to: students attending foreign universities, patients needing care unavailable in Gaza, businesspeople attempting to pretend that their world will eventually be normal.”
“The Palestinian mother is the author of the survival story of the Palestinian people. She is the heroine, the one behind the success.”
“That's the thing about war: it's never enough to disable the buildings, to blow holes into their middles; instead, they're hit over and over again, as if to pound them to dust, to disintegrate them, to remove them from the earth, to deny that families ever lived in them. But people did live there. And they needed to return, even though there was nothing left to return to except forbidding piles of broken concrete and cable wires sticking out of the heaps like markers of malevolence.”
“No one has the luxury of deciding "when" to travel; you wait prepared to travel whenever the border is open, which could be today, tomorrow or next week or three, four months from now.”
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