A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.