The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Ironically, many of these people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement? — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
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