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Freedom Fighter Quotes

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
- Yasser Arafat

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- George Carlin

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.
- Louis Farrakhan

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
- Nelson Mandela

America certainly did its part. But doing the sums, it is now clear that through the eight years of Ronald Reagan's presidency, 1981-89, Saudi Arabia actually provided more material assistance to the world's varied assortment of anti Communist "freedom fighters" than did the United States, thus hastening the end of the Cold War and helping accomplish the downfall of the "Evil Empire.
- Robert Lacey

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
- Anne Lamott

The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.
- Pentti Linkola

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.
- Pranab Mukherjee

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
- Fatos Nano

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.
- Maureen Ohara

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.
- Ian Smith

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