Hamid Dabashi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement
-- Hamid Dabashi

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The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.
-- Hamid Dabashi

#Men #Historical #Important
While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism ...in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'.
-- Hamid Dabashi

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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.
You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.
Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

Hamid Dabashi famous quotes

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