Samar Dahmash Jarrah

“As Americans, the vast majority of us might recall that our ancestors began here as outsiders, immigrants and strangers, not citizens; an even more compelling reason to remember the Golden Rule. Jefferson would do so at the end of his life, following a pronounced pattern in those who had fought before him against the persecution of Muslims.”
― Denise A. Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders

“تذكرت سيدنا عمر بن الخطاب الذي كان يخشي أن يسأله الله عن بغلة عثرت في العراق، وقارنته بالبغال الذين لا يخشون أن يسألهم الله عن ملايين البشر الذين ساسوهم فزادوهم رهقا.”
― بلال فضل, السكان الأصليين لمصر

“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven

“many Americans in the founding era, despite the tenacious legacy of misinformation from Europe, refused to yield to contemporary fears promoting the persecution of Muslims.”
― Denise A. Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders