#ay

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#die #forward #get #really #rich

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#anything #believe #black #burden #could

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#anybody #dangerous #underestimate

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly? ↗

— King Abdullah II

#address #age #badly #creative #ever

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#arab world #because #brotherhood #democracy #east

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#day #israel #let us #live #ministers

I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#done #energy #everyone #exactly #going

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#always #american #been #conflict #intelligence

Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#become #believe #continue #fortress #forward

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#answer #arab #arab world #back #been