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“To say simply that Orientalism was a rationalization of colonial rule is to ignore the extent to which colonial rule was justified in advance by Orientalism, rather than after the fact.”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism

“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
― Edward Said

“The appropriation of history, the historicization of the past, the narrativization of society, all of which give the novel its force, include the accumulation and differentiation of social space, space to be used for social purposes.”
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller