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![Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/683/682801/682801.webp "Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people Picture Quote #1")
![It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired. In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President [Ronald] Reagan, who called them freedom fighters Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/997/996247/996247.webp "It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired. In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President [Ronald] Reagan, who called them freedom fighters Picture Quote #1")
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![This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/822/821346/821346.webp "This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing Picture Quote #1")
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Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people (Edward Said Quotes)
It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired. In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President [Ronald] Reagan, who called them freedom fighters. (Edward Said Quotes)
In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President Reagan, who called them freedom fighters. These people, by the way, don’t represent Islam in any formal sense. They’re not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam. (Edward Said Quotes)
There’s been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections. (Edward Said Quotes)
I don’t myself believe in a two-state solution. I believe in a one-state solution. (Edward Said Quotes)
It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired. (Edward Said Quotes)
The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians (Edward Said Quotes)
The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it’s probably too late because the United States has never done that; it’s always gone it alone (Edward Said Quotes)
This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing (Edward Said Quotes)
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 expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd’s flock (Edward Said Quotes)
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics (Edward Said Quotes)
There’s been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections (Edward Said Quotes)
Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed (Edward Said Quotes)
It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired (Edward Said Quotes)
In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is (Edward Said Quotes)
And in this relentlessly unfolding series of interactions, the U.S. has played a very distinctive role, which most Americans have been either shielded from or simply unaware of (Edward Said Quotes)
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present (Edward Said Quotes)
My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated (Edward Said Quotes)
Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement? (Edward Said Quotes)
History is written by those who win and those who dominate (Edward Said Quotes)
I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause (Edward Said Quotes)
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires (Edward Said Quotes)
I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace (Edward Said 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 and liberate (Edward Said Quotes)
Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness (Edward Said Quotes)
We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness (Edward Said Quotes)
Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement (Edward Said Quotes)
Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone’s feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings (Edward Said Quotes)
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 and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings (Edward Said Quotes)
I don’t remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result (Edward Said Quotes)
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