"All the great crimes of history, lest we……" — Eskinder Nega
"All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times."
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13 Quotes by Eskinder Nega
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Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and…
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I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.
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Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave…
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Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit…
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In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world…
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I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s.…
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As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and…
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Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.
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I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said…
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Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
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As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia.…
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We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in…
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