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Sometimes, to make a little bit of change in people’s lives they just need a tent or a little bit of food, a bit of support or a little education.

— Hani Abbas Interview with UNHCR (2021)

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I am dreaming every day about going back to Syria … but I will never return before that criminal regime is toppled.

Interview (2022)

The future is mysterious. Now we’re seeing an entire generation lost to war. My hopes for the future are not personal; they’re for my people. My hopes are for peace, and only for peace.

Interview (2013)

The tools of oppression have evolved over two years of warfare, from the police baton to gas.

Interview (2013)

When you have a cause, the best way to express yourself is artistically

Interview (2013)

I hope all the people who have problems in their countries can get out. I support people who want to get out if they have dreams, if they want to protect their kids.

Interview with UNHCR (2021)

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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