I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community. |
It was not only the extreme reverence with which the young viewed him, it was the way they began to sing the songs. It was more than just mouthing the lyrics — they became deeply connected to his poetry. |
Jews did have a role, some did, in the demise and brutal treatment of the Jewish people, |
Katrina was not unforeseeable, ... It was the result of a political structure that subcontracts its responsibility to private contractors and abdicates its responsibility altogether. |
Katrina was not unforeseeable. It was the result of a political structure that abdicates its responsibility. |
No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution. |
Only to tell them they're all dismissed, |
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet, ... I'm always in Africa . . . And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere. |
The idea that you work in the house of the master is almost in itself its own opportunity to do some mischief and make a difference, but when you are in that place and you help perpetuate the master's policy that perpetuates oppression and pain for many others, then something has to be said about it, ... And the master in this instance, of course, was the president of the United States. |
the most important of my life. |
The point was not to attack Jews, |
There's a lot of people out here who are really pissed off. |
There's an old saying, ... In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and there were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. |
This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit. |
very much similar to the things that were done when Hitler was on the rise. |