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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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“My countrymen, my blood spills for you and for Egypt. I will live for your sake and die for the sake of your freedom and honor. Let them kill me; it does not concern me so long as I have instilled pride, honor, and freedom in you. If Gamal Abdel Nasser should die, each of you shall be Gamal Abdel Nasser ... Gamal Abdel Nasser is of you and from you and he is willing to sacrifice his life for the nation.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stephens, Robert Henry (1972), Nasser: A Political Biography, New York
“The holy march on which the Arab nation insists, will carry us forward from one victory to another ... the flag of freedom which flies over Baghdad today will fly over Amman and Riyadh. Yes, the flag of freedom which flies over Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad today will fly over the rest of the Middle East.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aburish, Said K. (2004), Nasser, the Last Arab, New York City
“You are from Britain. Would you accept to give Manchester to some other people? And if you are American, I ask the same way, do you accept to give California to some other people? Or would you accept the 'status quo' of occupying Manchester by some other people, by the Chinese for instance? And then reach agreement after expelling the people of Manchester from their homes, depriving them of their property, of everything? This is the question of Palestine.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all… This is the dream of every Arab.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in the Washington Post (27 July 1959)
“What was taken by force can only be retrieved by force.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the refugees return to Israel – Israel will cease to exist.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Mandate for Terror : The United Nations and the PLO (1989), by Harris O. Schoenberg, p. 239
“Now with our concentrations in Sinai, the chances of war are fifty-fifty. But if we close the Strait, war will be a one hundred percent certainty.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let them kill Nasser! What is Nasser but one among many? I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood… In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a re-election speech (1965), as quoted in Islamic Imperialism : A History (2007) by Efraim Karsh, p. 162
“If the Jews win this battle, then the Arabs had better go bury their faces in the mud!”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered [in the Holocaust].”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If anyone thinks we have become tired, let me say that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. [If war comes] it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in the Washington Post (27 May 1967)
“We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gamal Abdel Nasser, speech to Egypt's National Assembly, Cairo (November 6, 1969), as reported by The Washington Post (November 7, 1969), p. 1.
“We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (14 November 1969)
“I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a meeting with King Hussein, as quoted in the in Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism: A History (2007), p. 172