Vietnamese Quotes

Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

I would like to see America some day.

I put my heart in my work.

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

I had to do something for the country.

I am happy with what I've done.

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.