Hanan Ashrawi Quotes

But instead of taking action, he cooked up a deal: freeze everything, don't throw out the corrupt officials, sit and do nothing, grasp onto the excuse of the elections.

Hanan Ashrawi

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• Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

  

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• Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

  

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• 'Don't let yourself become cynical. Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action. Cynicism corrodes the will, dulls the conscience, blunts your sense of right and wrong... Stay alert to fine distinctions: become a pessimist like me.'

  

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• When you have a community that's strong in the arts, it brings all sorts of attention and different businesses into the community.

  

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• But instead of taking action, he cooked up a deal: freeze everything, don't throw out the corrupt officials, sit and do nothing, grasp onto the excuse of the elections.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Action
  • Deal
  • Elections