Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom. Rachel Corrie More Quotes by Rachel Corrie More Quotes From Rachel Corrie Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up. Rachel Corrie giving-up dream believe I feel like I'm witnessing the Rachel Corrie military trying people We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances. Rachel Corrie strong beautiful people I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will. Rachel Corrie wish people thinking Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom. Rachel Corrie smell apples sauce People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us. Rachel Corrie country people thinking We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot. Rachel Corrie civilians threat please I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president. Rachel Corrie distance mother teacher I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying. Rachel Corrie systematic destruction people Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other. Rachel Corrie things hurt people thinking When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism. Rachel Corrie woman i-am good beautiful I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions. Rachel Corrie value words try people Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with. Rachel Corrie down dinner sometimes people I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries. Rachel Corrie end place money people I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do. Rachel Corrie i-am good jealous freedom We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn. Rachel Corrie alone die born world I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports. Rachel Corrie freedom hope people world Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us. Rachel Corrie laugh me media time
