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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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Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles,…
— Ronald Reagan
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Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests,…
— George W. Bush
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My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom,
— Fela Kuti
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Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight…
— Paul Robeson
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We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.
— Woodrow Wilson
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'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for…
— John F. Kennedy
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Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom…
— Nelson Mandela
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I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in…
— Howard Dean
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The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that…
— Nguyen Van Thieu
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Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
— James Connolly
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