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"God will judge them--only God." James Oyugi, one of the victims of the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Nairobi, reacting to the guilty verdicts handed out by a jury in the federal district court in Manhattan to four men accused of the blast, which killed 224 people and injured thousands
"We don't speak of justice, we speak of a measure of justice." Gideon Taylor, executive vice president of the Jewish Claims Conference, taking a guarded view of the German Parliament's decision to allow $4.5 billion in reparations to surviving Nazi slave laborers
"We are doing it so that the prisoners don't feel depressed at being behind bars." Winston Spadafora, Interior minister of Panama, explaining the reasoning behind a salsa-music concert held at Panama City's overcrowded Feminine Detention Center
"It's no big deal. I just wanted to protest against all the sleaze going on in Brazil's politics." One of several Brazilian protesters who communicated their dissatisfaction with the government by baring their backsides at the National Congress
"It was more of a flea market than a Sotheby's sale." Swiss newspaper Tribune de Geneve describing an auction of goods belonging to former Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko at his estate near Lausanne. Among the items were a plastic helmet given by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and a golden guest book from former U.S. president Richard Nixon.
...Source: HighBeam Research, Perspectives.(quotations)(Brief Article)