"Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of……" — Susan Abulhawa
"Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation."
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Susan Abulhawa
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24 Quotes by Susan Abulhawa
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How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?
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No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to…
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The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has cometo live with us like a family…
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The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the…
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We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we…
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Love cannot reconcile with deception
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I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will…
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Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority…
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Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.
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For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from…
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love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I…
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