political-activists

"This, in a way, would be exceeding odd And almost justify man’s ways to God— If, by the healing of these hills, the blind Receive an inner sight, and leave behind Their narrow greed, their numbing fears, and fare Forth with new souls to breathe the honest air;If rich man, poor man, lawyer, merchant, thief Declare with one accord that they'd as lief Laugh and forget, and make a gracious truce With sea and mountain; learn again the use Of earth and sky and ocean-ranging breeze, And dance, and dance beneath the pepper trees."

"...The political head of this colony says women do not want the removal of their disabilities. I can believe that a few women, through sheer ignorance, say they do not want it. I can believe that some dare not admit they want it. But that the majority do not want it is, I believe, simply untrue. We women of the National Council do not pay annual visits to the towns of the colony for our own amusement. There is no royal road to the capacity for real service, as there is no royal road to any supreme attainment, and we who have taken up the white woman's burden of responsibility in this corner of our great Empire are bound to do what we can to put an end to this hell born conspiracy of silence which is eating into the very vitals of our humanity. We crave for education and free and unhampered life-a life of wholesome economic independence. It is perhaps too much to expect those who have grown up in indifference or ignorance to adjust themselves to the new conditions which a century of scientific discovery has rendered inevitable, but surely our younger brothers who have grown up side by side with our girls in the happy comradeship of mixed schools and colleges will range themselves, as I believe they are already doing, on the side of justice and right."

"...I would rather have this new woman - even in her occasional perversity, exaggeration, and revolt - than the female oyster who discovers no interest in life outside the limits of her own shell."

"The New Woman is she who had discovered herself, not relatively as mother, wife, sister, but absolutely...she recognises her restrictions, and she further recognises that these restrictions must be struggled against, not in the direction of denying her nature, but rather of shaking off every artificial restraint and repression which will in any way hinder her own full and free development..."

"The question is often asked, "What do women want?" We want men "to stand out of our sunshine"; that is all."

"We want to grow as flowers of the field are permitted to grow, whether they be of male or female form. We want to develop as do the mothers of the animal world where infanticide or female subjections are alike unheard of and undesired. Let woman but have free course and she will glorify not only herself, but the whole race; and in order to her having free course our request for woman is only this, that she may have a fair field and no favour, freedom to give expression to her own powers. Our New Zealand University has been thrown open to women on the same terms as men, and nothing but good has eventuated. Our professions have been thrown open to women, and neither have the skies fallen nor wedding bells ceased to peal.Our polling booths have been thrown open to women, and drunkenness and rowdyism, bribery and corrupt practices have in great measure given place to decency, good order and kindly camaraderie. Let the Civil Service, and other posts, appointments and positions in the colony-or beyond it for that matter-be thrown open to women. In a word, let disability of sex be withdrawn, as have those other disabilities of colour, race, caste and class, and only good will result..."

"And you talk to most of them, and they come out telling you they're the ones who's oppressed and victims. I seriously, seriously, seriously hate white people, especially those of English or Dutch or German descent."

"I’m delighted that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in the UK and has been reunited with his loved ones, who must be feeling profound relief... Alaa's case has been a top priority for my government since we came to office."

"Mr El-Fattah is a British citizen. It has been a long-standing priority under successive governments to work for his release from detention, and to see him reunited with his family in the UK."

"Dear Zionists, please don’t ever talk to me, I’m a violent person who advocated the killing of all Zionists including civilians, so f--- off."

"I consider killing any colonialists and specially zionists heroic, we need to kill more of them."

"Unfortunately, the Iranian nuclear project isn't dedicated to the extermination of the white man; Bin Laden's odds are higher."

"Now my real criticism of these post-police murder riots is the wrong focus, go burn the City or Downing Street, or hunt police fools."

"By his own public posts, Mr Abd El-Fattah has endorsed killing ‘zionists’ and urged more of it. He has also been widely reported as having called for the killing of Israelis, in terms so extreme that his nomination for a major European human rights prize was withdrawn when the post came to light. He has since sought to explain himself. That only underlines the point: this is not ancient history. It is a live controversy about incitement and hatred."

"police are not human...They don’t have rights, we should just kill them all."

"So the brilliant British dogs and monkeys really think terrorists will reveal their plans on Twitter."

"I’m telling you that I hate white people."

"there was no genocide against Jews by the Nazis – after all, many Jews are left."

"Now all I can think of is joining Bin Laden and killing a few Americans."

"What the internet has truly changed is not political dissent, but rather social dissent. We must protect it as a safe space where people can experiment with gender and sexual identities, explore what it means to be gay or a single mom or an atheist or a Christian in the Middle East, but also what it means to be black and angry in the US, to be Muslim and ostracized in Europe, or to be a coal miner in a world that must cut back on greenhouse gases. The internet is the only space where all different modes of being Palestinian can meet. If I express this precariousness in symbolic violence, will you hear me out? Will you protect me from both prosecution by the establishment and exploitation by the well-funded fringe extremists?"

"May I start by raising the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah? As the Prime Minister knows and has said, he is a British citizen jailed for the crime of posting on social media and has been imprisoned in Egypt for most of the last nine years; he has been on hunger strike for the last six months. The Prime Minister just said that he raised this case with President Sisi; what progress did he make in securing Alaa's release?"

"can we get back to killing zionists please? they seem to be more violent when we stick to non violence."

"Tweet the wrong thing in Britain and you’ll serve 13 months. Tweet the wrong thing in Egypt and we’ll bring you here, put you up, pay for your son’s special school - while you call us apes and boast of hating white people."

"We are here because you were there."

"What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after."

"Hadi wanted a society where the people would make the leader of the parliament with their own money, and the leader would not become the leader of the parliament with his own money."

"Shooter Faisal was paid a total of Tk 214 crore for Hadi's murder."

"We hope and pray that he attains the status of martyrdom."

"Don't be greedy. Money will come today, and will go away tomorrow. They gave 10 lakh taka to kill my gold (Hadi). Is this 10 lakh taka a lot? How long does it take to finish this 10 lakh taka?! I think even if a Bangladesh is given, my Osman will not come. This Osman will not be created! If you keep this Osman in yourself, you will have to keep both your intellect and the highway in your possession. Can't you?.. My Osman used to say that I want to create some boys and girls and leave them behind...."

"Hadi doesn't seem like anything more to me than a very important 'guinea pig' at the moment. You doctors would cut open a cockroach's stomach and sew it back together. But Hadi might not be able to walk."

"Neck! No headshot (like Osman Hadi). Silence him first! Will also take care of small errors. #UnknownGunmen."

"Get ready for a heart attack soon. Five Indian fishermen rammed to death by Kanglu (Bangladesh) navy; there will be a cost, a much bigger one."

"He (Hasnat Abdullah) is the next after Hadi! Strong Warning Issued to India Over Northeast Region: "'Seven Sisters' will be separated from India." - Hasnat Abdullah (NCP)"

"We will give our life, but we will not give July."

"Death is decided not on the ground, but in the sky."

"These so called people of civil society should be fed to the crows by tearing their ugly thing."

"If 500 children are created like Hadi, if 1000 children are created, not only the whole of Bangladesh, it is possible to conquer the whole world."

"I have slanged many times, I will not do it again, I repent, I want to leave, I have a son of my own, now there is an age coming, there is a stage of slang, but even if I don't give in, now there is a stage where not giving slang becomes a sin..."

"21-day account of donations sent by supporters: From November 7 to November 30, his election campaign received 13 lakh 31 thousand 557 taka in bank account; 1 lakh 98 thousand 989 taka in bKash; 6 thousand 28 taka in cash; 3 thousand 838 taka in Rocket. In total, a total of 15 lakh 40 thousand 412 taka has been deposited. After the election, the full account, including bank statements, will be published, maintaining the confidentiality of donors."

"We don't slang, no, we do slang. Now who do we slang, that is the fact. Now suppose, you are leaving here for home. So, sitting in front of you, you saw a lady sitting in front of you being robbed by a robber holding a knife to her and taking all her belongings, or while trying to protect her, the child in her lap is about to fall and die, then if you have the least courage and strength, you will chase him even at the risk. Now, while chasing him, will you say to him in the formal wordy language like "Oh good boy, stop please" or will you slang him? The fact is, slang has been and will continue to be in society. But the slang that can be given to a mass murderer, who shoots a 6-year-old child from a helicopter and rips out her liver, then you will not necessarily give this slang to anyone else."

"We have one demand from the BNP, on behalf of the student community. Don't trust India; you will sink, sink, sink!!!"

"Shauwaa Mauwaa Cchirraa Falaitey Hoibo Khankir Polago!!! (শাউয়া মাউয়া ছিড়ড়া ফালাইতে হইবো খানকির পোলাগো) [Shauwwaa Mauwwaa (derived from bangali word Hauwwa and the later word "Mauwa" is it's phonetic assiimilative derivative (someone follower or blind to biological, mostly erotic sexual instinct (Haush, meaning wish or will) rather than rationality and conscience) bengali slangs for shame organs, private parts, and pubic hairs) must have to be (deadly, harshly) torn away out of the khanki's (bengali slangs for prostitutes, the name of the female servants in Sufi khankas, who were secretly used as extramarital sexual partners at one point due to their blind adherence to the Khanka's religious leaders) sons!!!]"

"The nature of Awami League is that it kills whoever loves it. Ziaur Rahman allowed Sheikh Hasina to return, whatever happening, let her come and atleast do politics, he was martyred after 13 days. We are in the same situation. So this is a poison. We have to create a national consensus on how to fight this poison. So I am telling you, do not corner BNP 100 percent. BNP is a big force for us in this fight against hegemony. This force cannot be cornered so much that they grab the hand of Awami League. If they grab the hand of Awami League, then the fight will become more difficult for us. Rather, our challenge to BNP is that any BNP that shows love for the BAKSALi constitution should be held up the picture of martyr Zia in front of it, that Ziaur Rahman himself had thrown away this BAKSALi constitution! Begum Zia said that this constitution will be thrown away, but Oh my God! What we are seeing now? A strange paradox! Now a new BNP is coming, better than Begum Zia! A BNP with more love! What an irony!"

"If I win, you will gain. So you will have to bear all my election expenses. I will not spend a single taka from my own pocket here and I will not use a single taka from your money for my personal expenses. Exactly 25 lakh taka is required to run the election campaign. I have also opened bank accounts, bKash, Nagad, Rocket numbers. You will have to pay the entire 25 lakh. In the first 10 days of this December, people have sent me money in various ways and means. The amount is 6 lakh 24 thousand 880 taka. Since the start of the election campaign till December 10, I have received a total of 21 lakh 65 thousand 292 taka from the public"

"...This fascism was born by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bengali of a thousand years."

"Awami League, killer league, millitant-terrorist League, their birth in India will also be in India. This is why our language has become bad, looking at the blood of July, there is no such disgusting language, people did not apply it to Sheikh Hasina. Because the abuse of the oppressed against the mass murderer has become his epic. Now again some intellectuals are standing up, you slang them, then what will we give them, kiss? Bring me Hasina, we will give her a kiss.. Bustard.. Now our boys who are giving the f*ckin' slangs with her like chudling pong fong, by saying naraye takbir, she is supposed to slang them, but she is not giving it, she is not supposed to be that good at this age.. how strange it is..."

"This attack is not only on Hadi, this attack is on the existence of whole Bangladesh. Young people like Hadi, who are outspoken, honest, uncompromising, and completely indifferent to personal interests, are the biggest threat to the return of the defeated fascist force. That's why they are dying to terminate these youths before election."

"The story we heard from our fathers is that the Muslims said, "We will not let them go here and beat the drums during prayers while they are on our necks." The Hindus told E.H. Brandy in English, "They said, 'We will throw our necks away.'" Brandy then ordered the Gurkha soldiers to shoot. Immediately, 19 Muslims were martyred. Sher-e-Bangla then came here and dismissed Brandy, wanted to give land to the families of the martyrs, renamed the Kulkathi area as Shaheediya and built a school and a madrasa called Shaheediya, which still exists... My father said, "If you want to study in a university and become educated and work as mediators for those Muslims who did not know English and were given their statements to the British by the Hindus because they misinterpreted them, then I am willing to allow you to take the entrance examination." After I got admitted to Dhaka University, I was reading Abul Mansur Ahmed's book 50 Years of Politics in the library and saw that this incident was also briefly mentioned at the beginning."

"...Considering all these conditions, We hope that Allah will accept Sharif Usman Hadi brother as a martyr."

"Tear me apart, vulture: "O vulture of the border, tear me apart at once, O eagle of the Atlantic, soon devour me, O hawk of Baikal Lake, scratch and bite me to pieces. There is only helplessness and poverty in my blood; The paper moths call inflation with affection. My molecules are turning blue under the pressure of debt, my heart is bleeding internally to run the family, what a wonder, yet I am not dying! On the other hand, I do not dare to commit suicide for fear of hell! I told God, I want to die, He said, who said you are alive? The king has mummified you as a witness to millennia of development. If you sigh in the market, the state is greatly disgraced. The king is also very upset. The police have issued an order, I have to laugh all the time! Otherwise, local dogs and foreign cats will be fed with my meat. They don't like the intestines of broilers every day! Or I will be sold in parts, even humans can eat humans, right? Luckily, it won't be sold in foreign supermarkets, local humans have more right to eat me! When this hell is the fate, then I am calling the best carnivorous creatures in the world. O eagles, hawks and terrible hawks, O brave imperialist vultures, you like F-35s and MiG-29s - gather in a group and attack my chest; my thighs, thighs, eyes, liver - today they are all your booty; before the local pigs eat me, tear me to pieces as you wish! For heaven's sake, don't just eat my brain. Then you too will soon become slaves."