Rachel Corrie Quotes

• Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

  Rachel Corrie

  Dream, Giving Up, Believe

  "The Death of Rachel Corrie" by Joshua Hammer, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2003.

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• I feel like I'm witnessing the
  systematic destruction of a
  people's ability to survive....
  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

  Military, People, Trying

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• 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

  Beautiful, Strong, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.

  Rachel Corrie

  Thinking, People, Wish

  "Rachel's war", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  Rachel Corrie

  Smell, Apples, Sauce

  "Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie".

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• People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

  Rachel Corrie

  Country, Thinking, People

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• I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

  Rachel Corrie

  People, Systematic, Destruction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

  Rachel Corrie

  Threat, Please, Civilians

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• I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

  Rachel Corrie

  Mother, Teacher, Distance

  Rachel Corrie (2009). “Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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