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From Quotes by Edward Said
- Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of…
- Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist…
- All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is…
- Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex…
- The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From…
- In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we…
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