We should be inspired by people… who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances. Rachel Corrie Read Quote
I feel like I’m witnessing the systematic destruction of a people’s ability to survive. It’s horrifying. Rachel Corrie Read Quote
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom. Rachel Corrie Read Quote
I’ve had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries. Rachel Corrie Read Quote
When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism. Rachel Corrie Read Quote
Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I’m having dinner with. Rachel Corrie Read Quote
Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn’t hurt each other. Rachel Corrie Read Quote
I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports. Rachel Corrie Read Quote
We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn. Rachel Corrie Read Quote
