Quotes by Eskinder Nega - Page 1

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
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Brazen
Unlearn
Mistakes
Aptly
Repeat
Wont
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I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.
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Warehouse
Wide
Hall
Jailed
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Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.
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Defeated
Delayed
Humanity
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All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
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Forget
Genesis
Moral
Wilderness
Crimes
Lest
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We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.
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Age
Democratic
Expectations
Way
Aspirations
Hopes
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Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.
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Birth
Prime Minister
Detained
Minister
Previous
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As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.
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Ethiopia
Europe
Humanitarian
Implications
Instability
Security
States
United States
Whole
Africa
Goes
Horn
Major
Region
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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, next to their wives, in their homes.
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Bars
Lice
Warm
Beds
Homes
Wives
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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 - not the bang that extremists long for.
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Doomed
Exit
Tyranny
Bang
Extremists
Increasingly
Unsustainable
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Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.
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Ethnicity
Race
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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 Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.
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Arab Spring
Ethiopia
Reform
Spring
Arab
Authoritarian
Report
Overthrow
Regime
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I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly broad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, which ostensibly covers the 'planning, preparation, conspiracy, incitement and attempt' of terrorist acts.
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Arrested
Conspiracy
Ethiopia
Guilty
June
Nine
Nine Months
Planning
Preparation
Proclamation
September
Terrorist
Acts
Attempt
Broad
Covers
Detained
Overly
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I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.
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Doom
Glee
Soviet
Soviet Union
Thrill
Early 1990S
Held
Implacable
Inundated
Possibilities
Union
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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 carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.
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Leadership
Antagonism
Attraction
Burden
Decades
Historical
March
Norm
World Politics
Politics History World
Anomaly
Carried
Dominated
One Nation
Poles
Rarely
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As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.
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Catalyst
Committed
Conscience
Democratic
Economic Sanctions
Ethiopia
Europe
Long Term
Pain
Peaceful
Pledge
Prisoner
Reform
Sanctions
Short Term
Apply
Gain
Urge
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Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would suffer catastrophically. The theatrical blustering of the Ethiopian government notwithstanding, donor countries have a make-or-break power over the Ethiopia's prosperity.
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American Economy
Ethiopia
Minus
Prosperity
Stimulus
Theatrical
Aggregate
Aid
Donor
Economies
Fiscal
Injections
Notwithstanding
Suffer
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