The task of criticism is to delineate the space in which hum... - Edward Said

"The task of criticism is to delineate the space in which human freedom is possible."

Edward Said Justice

Literary Critic, Theorist Palestinian-American 1935–2003

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"You think I'm just some animal?"

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

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