"I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence here, I would immediately go into despair. Immediately. And forgetting him, I would first despair of the institutional church and its hierarchy, and only later, of the Jews."

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Source : "Children of Ishmael: an interview with Fr Elias Chacour". Interview with Jim Forest, jimandnancyforest.com. September 20, 2011.

Elias Chacour

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“Our nearly century-long experiment in banning ***** has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing ***** would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.”
“I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer.”
“I am accountable for all the actions at my laboratory. I am accountable for all of the policies and procedures of security systems, and I am accountable for the training of the individuals working in the lab. We can't excuse them if they ignore these policies, if they are negligent, we have to hold them accountable as well.”
“The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.”
“You're not too good for the sleep mask-neck pillow combo! You're not too cool for it!”
“After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.”
“There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.”
“I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.”

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