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“Might we,” asked Aurienne, “go anywhere without subtracting from the population?” “Would you prefer,” asked Mordaunt, “that we add to it?”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

“I cannot imagine the moral depraved task you will assign to me as your employee.
I tend to leave the depravity to myself.
To work under such a man—
No one said anything about you working under me.”
― Heba Al-Wasity, Weavingshaw

“Will you call me Bram?
I am safe here, sir, on the other side.
And what side is that?
Where you are a formidable and uncompromising employer. And I a…
… ghost-seer.”
― Heba Al-Wasity, Weavingshaw

“- [ ] Zionism is best defined by its material manifestations — Zionism is what Zionism does. When Zionism’s most recent manifestation is genocide, what difference does it make whether the encampments protesting this genocide are utopias of coexistence? What difference does it make how the grieving grieve? Curating the native as “respectable” is a misplaced priority because it redirects critical scrutiny away from the colonizer, which in turn neglects the innate injustice of the colonial project. This misplaced focus insinuates that the oppressed must earn what they are already entitled to: liberty, dignity, and basic rights. Otherwise, if the native is not “respectable,” slavery and subjugation would be necessarily applicable, rather than morally reprehensible. Nothing reveals more about the colonizer’s psyche than these arrogant expectations.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal