Real
Gypsy Quotes!
(Some are actually about gypsies,
not from Gypsies but they really show how badly, inhumanly,and unfairly
Gypsies were treated, as well as the strength they had to stand together
and fight!)
They're so touching!
"No we were not always
slaves; see our brothers who live in the mountains. They know nothing of
chains, neck irons, whippings and hunger and thirst...Let us go free!!"
Mateo Maximoff
"They
scarcely ever stop in one place more than thirty days..they move from field
to field with their oblong tents, black and low, like arabs."
Simeon Simeonis, a monk in Crete in 1322
"Their ears be nailed
to a tree, and cutted off, and them banished the county; and if therafter
they be found again that they be hanged...the idle people calling themselves
Egyptians."
Scottish law aginast vagrants, 1579
"I saw a woman guard
kill four Gypsy children for eating leftover food."
Barbara Richter 1963
"We are people of worth,
not thieves or murderers. History has played with us, thrown us down and
split us up. But we must seek our destiny..by coming together as one people."
Jarko Jovanovic, 1978
"Well this policeman
stopped my motor and asked where I live. 'First tree I come to I can climb.'
I said"
Gypsy Girl 1972
"He knows no bosses,
no gaffers. He could make a living out of the dirt of a man's foot. He
could make money out of an old rope!"
Jimmy Higgins 1967
"It is true, as the Lovara
Rom say, "Amari shib si amari zor" 'Our language is our shregth."
Dr Ian Hankock, a Gypsy 1975
"Gypsies express in their
music their grief and their joy...Music accompanies their life from the
earliest childhood intil death itself."
Dr Jan Cibula 1978
"The greatest stregth
of Gypsies is thied invisibility...the mefge into the mass of strangers
in the street."
Ronald Lee 1971
More to come but that's
all for now.
Sovereign Brigand 1998
