personofcolour

"Today, I was by a river with a friend and we saw three swans - very beautiful ones. One was still with its head in the water but the two others seemed fine. One kept on trying to make the unconscious one move and tried many ways but never succeeded. And I wanted to film that and get Obama to see it and tell him ’ watch and learn something you should have been taught very long time ago’."

"Under the banner of Islam there are very different politics: democratic politics, the far right, left, central, all over. You can’t target a whole community for what one or two people have done."

"Bashar is not a nice guy, he is a criminal - but so is Obama and so is every murderer whether rebel, Shia or Sunnia, left or right, whether white or brown - holding a weapon against another human being is criminal no matter what are your politics!"

"Your liberal thinking for american prisoners’ rights worths nothing if you don’t want the same for muslim prisoners at guantanamo."

"Criminal regime or not, I do not care about Bashar - he is just another stubborn politician, however I would never support men that get paid, furnished with weapons and are politically indoctrinated by Saudis and US and kill their own compatriots and destroy their own country, whatever the country’s history might be. They wanted change in their country, they should have got it with the support of the Syrian people not with the weapons of Saudis and US and the bloodshed of the people of Syria."

"Many believe that wearing the scarf is oppressing and backward while showing skin is not. In reality those thinkers are really oppressed and indoctrinated by the patriarchy they live under. A woman has her true freedom when she is free to choose as to show or not her skin or hairs."

"When Mahatma Gandhi launched his campaign of peaceful resistance, Churchill raged that he “ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back.” As the resistance swelled, he announced: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.” This hatred killed. To give just one, major, example, in 1943 a famine broke out in Bengal, caused – as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has proved – by the imperial policies of the British. Up to 3 million people starved to death while British officials begged Churchill to direct food supplies to the region. He bluntly refused. He raged that it was their own fault for “breeding like rabbits”. At other times, he said the plague was “merrily” culling the population."