Quotes from Ayman Odeh

I do not put red lines on the Arab Palestinian nation.

The Palestinian people choose how to fight against the occupation.

Abu Mazen has no more hope for Netanyahu's approach. He's searching for a way to establish the Palestinian state. He doesn't want a militarized struggle with Israel.

A popular intifada is most beneficial for the Palestinians.

Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.

I am very wanted in my homeland. I am part of the scenery, part of the region. I resemble it.

I have a lot of warm feelings towards the Palestinian people.

I believe that the U.S. is the strongest country in the whole world and the country that supports Israel the most. I believe that it has the strength to push Israel towards peace.

I have no doubt that the Palestinian Arab leadership made a mistake when it did not accept the partition plan in 1947, but I want to try to understand it.

Al-Aksa is a religious and national symbol.

I flee from symbols. I think those who don't want to solve problems go to the symbols. I'm looking for content.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

The Arab population does not want to turn inward and be isolated.

In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-to-day: work, life. But people are sensitive to national rights.

A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.

Only the public that elected me can dismiss me.

Martin Luther King fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.

The U.S. is friends with dictatorial regimes, then invades places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and what happens afterwards is a catastrophe. In the place of their leaders, fundamentalist movements that use the name of Islam spring up, and all that's left is terror and bloodshed.

Every nation has a flag.

I agree with myself on 80 percent of things, but when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning, I still have inner debates about the right thing to do.

When I read Malcolm X, I didn't agree with it all, but I inhaled it; I connected to his rage.

The Right everywhere in the world gains more by forming a security agenda while the Left gains from a social agenda.

Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will join the struggle for civil equality in Israel.