Amal Katrib

“Palestinianism was for Said a condition of chronic exile, exile as agony but also as ethical position. To remain aloof from the group while honouring one’s organic ties to it; to exist between loneliness and alignment, remaining always a bit of a stranger; to resist the resolution of the narrative, the closing of the circle; to keep looking, to not feel too at home.”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

“We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity.
It is an unreliable horse, and blind into the bargain. Woe to the driver who falls asleep!”
― Albert Schweitzer, Reverence For Life

“Modernity had brought comfort and wealth, but it drowned out the music of creation’s heartbeat.”
― Robert Leonard Reid

“By acquiescing in an act that can cause such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring