Eskinder Nega Quotes

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• Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will…
• I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.
• Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in…
• 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 whimper…
• In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one…
• I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated…
• As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United…
• Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.
• I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they…
• All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
• Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
• 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 result…
• We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.

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