The intellectual has a responsibility to challenge authority... - Edward Said

"The intellectual has a responsibility to challenge authority, not to reinforce it."

Edward Said Courage

Literary Critic, Theorist Palestinian-American 1935–2003

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"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"

"Never let fear stop you from chasing your dreams."

"Courage is being afraid but doing it anyway."

"Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do."

"Sometimes you have to be the monster to stop the monsters."