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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 15 quotes by Eskinder Nega Eskinder Nega (born c. 1968 ) is an Ethiopian journalist and blogger who has been jailed seven times by the government of Meles Zenawi, including convictions for treason and terrorism. He received the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award in May 2012, and Amnesty International designated him a prisoner of conscience. On 2014 Eskinder Nega was awarded the Golden Pen Award of Freedom. Read full biography of Eskinder Nega → 1 2 Ctrl → Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes. 0 In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation... → 0 I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee... → 0 As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What... → 0 I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse. 0 As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United... → 0 Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper -... → 0 We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations. 0 All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. 0 Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated. 0 Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would... → 0 I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds... → 0 I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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