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

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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

“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.”

People Kind Whole Certain Courses Community Space Accepting Class Share Models Ordinary Accepted Palestinian Citizenship Integrated Cooperatives Neighbourhoods

Author:Judith Butler

“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

Author:Jack Kemp

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

Strong Criticism Inequality Cooperation Very Strong

Author:Judith Butler

“I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that the West Bank is. The Israeli government and military control all goods that pass in or out of that area, and they have restricted employment and building material that would allow Palestinians to rebuild homes and structures that were destroyed by bombardment.”

Way Home Government Military Building Materials Areas Structure West Destroyed Employment Goods Palestinian Israeli Gaza Building Materials

Author:Judith Butler

“People who have been made stateless by military occupation are entitled to repatriation, and then the question is to which state, or to what polity or area? Those who have had their goods taken away are entitled to compensation of some kind. These are basic international laws.”

People Kind Has Beens Made States Law Taken Military Areas International Goods Occupation Entitled Compensation International Law

Author:Judith Butler

“What would it mean if we lived in a world in which no one held out for the possibility of substantial political equality, or for a full cessation of colonial practices - if no one held out for those things because they were impossible?”

Ifs World Mean Political Practice Impossible Possibility Political Equality

Author:Judith Butler

“In fact in politics, sometimes the thing that will never happen actually starts to happen. And there have to be people who hold out for that, and who accept that they are idealists and that they are operating on principle as opposed to realpolitik.”

People Sometimes Facts Happens Accepting Principles Idealist Realpolitik

Author:Judith Butler

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