Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.
Angela MerkelRead
I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.
Interpretation
This quote conveys resilience and strength in the face of challenges.
Angela Merkel's quote emphasizes the strength and resilience inherent to her character, suggesting that while one may face pressures and challenges that test their limits, true strength lies in the ability to bend and adapt rather than to break. It is an affirmation of enduring through adversity and remaining steadfast in one's identity and values.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges, this quote highlights the strength of women.
Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.
Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.
It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.
We need... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.
During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened.
I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.
Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.
I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.
When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices.
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