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I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.

Edward Said's Popular Quotes

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate …

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No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

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Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human hi…

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Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more trul…

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History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

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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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