The point is not to mystify authority but to understand how ... - Edward Said

"The point is not to mystify authority but to understand how it operates and to contest it."

Edward Said Justice

Literary Critic, Theorist Palestinian-American 1935–2003

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"The intellectual is always, or should be, an outsider"

"Orientalism is a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient"

"To be human is to be in a situation of conflict and challenge"

"Secular humanism is not a negation of religion; it is a form of religion"

"Justice must always prevail."

"You think I'm just some animal?"

"Fighting for what's right never gets easier."

"Justice is worth fighting for."