I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don’t know.
ARUNDHATI ROYI feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a ‘natural ally’ of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.
More Arundhati Roy Quotes
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But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
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Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
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Use your art to fight.
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If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.
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As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I’ve spent my whole life fighting tradition. There’s no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.
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Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
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The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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A political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
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Some things come with their own punishments.
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Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
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Privatization is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all… it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World.
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States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence – so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only – or well that’s excessive – usually, the resistance.
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There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
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NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
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Sometimes there’s truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
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