Other Quotes by Eskinder Nega

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a…

— Eskinder Nega

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the…

— Eskinder Nega

As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may…

— Eskinder Nega

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom…

— Eskinder Nega

I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee…

— Eskinder Nega

We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.

— Eskinder Nega

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son…

— Eskinder Nega

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

— Eskinder Nega

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

— Eskinder Nega

I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though…

— Eskinder Nega

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

— Eskinder Nega

I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly broad Anti-Terrorism…

— Eskinder Nega