Jalal Talabani

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#coup #courage #find #military #morale

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#individual #justice #major #perpetrators #rights

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#kurdish #like #nation #other #people

All I wanted was to be a university teacher. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#teacher #university #wanted

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#democracies #dictatorships #fight #forgiving #generous

Every human must take responsibility for his actions. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#every #his #human #must #responsibility

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#denied #difference #diversity #i #in the past

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#compromise #concession #conciliation #deemed #equivalent

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#expression #freedom #i #penalized #place

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#one thing #reality #thing #thinking #wishful