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“We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.”

Quote by Judith Butler

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Judith Butler is a renowned philosopher, born on February 24, 1956. Her research focuses on issues of gender, identity, and power, having a profound impact on postmodernism and gender theory. more

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“Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind.”

Kind Mean Different Might Together Understanding Common Rights Jew Palestinian Refugee Exile

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“Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity, an ambivalence that emerges from the decentering of the nationalist ethos and that forms the basis of a permanent ethical demand.”

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“People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.”

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“We cannot choose with whom we cohabit the world.”

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“All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.”

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“Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.”

World Matter Humanity Population Genocide Entitlement

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“What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent, it can even be full of antagonism, but all of that can play out in the political sphere without recourse to expulsion or genocide. And that is our obligation, to stay in the sphere with whatever murderous rage we have, without acting on it.”

Mean Doe Play Political Acting Rage Unhappy Obligation Genocide Spheres Wretched Antagonism Recourse Ambivalent Expulsion

Author:Judith Butler

“There are ordinary spaces where people do, more or less, share neighbourhoods. In Haifa, there are whole communities that are more or less integrated. But of course that is with Palestinian Israelis who have, for the most part, accepted certain kinds of cooperative models, and also accept second-class citizenship.”

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“American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.”

Long Whole Cities Achieve Despair Tolerate American Society Inner City

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“We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.”

Strong Criticism Inequality Cooperation Very Strong

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