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“لا يثبت دين المرء على حالة واحدة أبدًا، و لكنه لا يزال إما زائدًا و إما ناقصًا”
― الأدب الصغير والأدب الكبير
― الأدب الصغير والأدب الكبير

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“عندما كنت أسير بين الشباب اليائس الغاضب المرفوض، كنت أقول لهم إن خليط المولوتف والبنادق لن تحل مشكلاتهم، حاولت أن أقدم لهم أعمق تعاطفي مع إيماني الراسخ بأن التغيير الاجتماعي يأتي ويكون مجدياً من خلال العمل غير العنيف. لكنهم سألوا، وكانوا على حق "ماذا عن فيتنام؟" سألوا ألا تستخدم بلادنا جرعات مكثفة من العنف لحل مشكلاتها لتحدث التغيرات التي تريدها؟ وأصابت أسألتهم كبد الحقيقة، وعلمت أنني لا أستطيع أن أرفع صوتي مرة أخرى ضد عنف المظلومين في الجيتوهات قبل أن أخاطب راعي العنف في العالم اليوم: حكومتي.”
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“Therefore, the search for truth was a means of trying to be more sincere with my own existence, as I would be seeking to establish the truth of this life and my place within it. For me, holding on to the sceptical view of the truth, which argues that there is no truth, was self-defeating. This is because the concept that there is no truth is actually a claim itself, so how could I claim that scepticism is true but everything else is not? This is the inconsistency of the sceptical view; a sceptic would claim the truth of scepticism but would deny all other truths. Consequently, no matter what position I held, I still had to accept a truth.”
― The Divine Reality: God, Islam & the Mirage of Atheism
― The Divine Reality: God, Islam & the Mirage of Atheism

“Whenever you conceptualize social justice struggles, you will always defeat your own purposes if you cannot imagine the people around whom you are struggling as equal partners.”
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
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