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Quotes from Speech to UN General Assembly — Yasser Arafat

1929–2004 Palestine

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Today 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. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Speech to UN General Assembly (1974)

Those who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of self-defence.

Speech to UN General Assembly (1974)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yasser Arafat (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.