"Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral."
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quoted in "Internal Exile" by Pankaj Mishra in The New Yorker, 2021
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Edward Said
Edward Wadie Said (November 1, 1935 ā September 24, 2003) was a Palestinian American literary theorist and public intellectual involved in founding the critical-theory field of postcolonialism.
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