Hamid Dabashi quotes
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“This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement”
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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 DabashiSource : Hamid Dabashi (2001). “Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future”, p.15, Verso
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“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 DabashiSource : "For the Last Time: Civilizations". International Sociology, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 01, 2001.
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Source : "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.
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“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.”
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