Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989) former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
in an interview on ABC
1965
Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989) former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
in an interview on ABC
1965
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader
2009, As a Peace Loving Global Citizen http://www.euro-tongil.org/TFbiography.pdf
Diane Abbott (1953) British Labour Party politician
Diane Abbott: Listen to CBI and NHS' on Brexit migration https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42384346 BBC News (17 December 2017) <br class="br">2010s
Geoffrey Blainey (1930) Australian historian
"Immigration: Australia's Rag Doll,", The Weekend Australian (June 2-3, 1990)
Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
NOW interview (2002)
Context: At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. Some of them even said that the Europeans … were better Muslims than they themselves, because their modern society had enabled them to create a fairer and more just distribution of wealth, than was possible in their pre-modern climates, and that accorded more perfectly with the vision of the Quran.
Then there was the experience of colonialism under Britain and France, experiences like Suez, the Iranian revolution, Israel, and some people, not all by any means… have allowed this … these series of disasters to corrode into hatred. Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. … crucified, and that turned into victory. Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. But against the West, it's been able to make no headway, and this is as disturbing for Muslims as the discoveries of Darwin have been to some Christians. The Quran says that if you live according to the Quranic ideal, implementing justice in your society, then your society will prosper, because this is the way human beings are supposed to live. But whatever they do, they cannot seem to get Muslim history back on track, and this has led some, and only a minority, it must be said, to desperate conclusions.
Madeleine K. Albright (1937–2022) Former U.S. Secretary of State
On illegal migrants to the United States from Mexico and Central America, in Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership (2008), p. 225
2000s