"I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated……" — 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 generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom."
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Eskinder Nega
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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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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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All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
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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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