Albert Memmi quotes
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“There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.”
-- Albert MemmiSource : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.3, U of Minnesota Press
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“I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.”
-- Albert MemmiSource : Albert Memmi (2013). “The Colonizer and the Colonized”, p.12, Routledge
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“Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.”
-- Albert MemmiSource : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press
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“Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.â€Â - - Unknown “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.”
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Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.”
Source : "Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate" by Rob Reynolds, www.cnn.com. May 10, 1996.
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“It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.”
Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
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