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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,…
— John Adams
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
— Victor Hugo
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is…
— Charles Lamb
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Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare…
— Rajneesh
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
— J. B. Priestley
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Civilize the mind but make savage the body.
— Mao Zedong
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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
— James A. Michener
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I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows…
— Anzia Yezierska
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Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social…
— Chapman Cohen
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Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize…
— Unknown Author
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