"While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it."

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Max Blumenthal

#Needs Quotes #Ongoing Quotes #Lectures Quotes

“The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.”
“The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.”
“Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.”
“The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.”
“I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.”
“But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.”
“In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.”
“Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.”

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