You Cannot Continue To Victimize Someone Else

This [9/11 Event] Was Bloody-minded Destruction For No Other Reason Than To Do It. Note That There Was No Claim For These Attacks. There Were No Demands. There Were No Statements. It Was A Silent Piece Of Terror. This Was Part Of Nothing.

We Are At A Point In Our Work When We Can No Longer Ignore Empires And The Imperial Context In Our Studies. (p. 5)

What Is Quite Worrisome Is The Absence Of Analysis And Reflection. Take The Word "terrorism." It Has Become Synonymous Now With Anti-americanism, Which, In Turn, Has Become Synonymous With Being Critical Of The United States, Which, In Turn, Has Become Synonymous With Being Unpatriotic. That's An Unacceptable Series Of Equations.

I Take Criticism So Seriously As To Believe That, Even In The Midst Of A Battle In Which One Is Unmistakably On One Side Against Another, There Should Be Criticism, Because There Must Be Critical Consciousness If There Are To Be Issues, Problems, Values, Even Lives To Be Fought For... Criticism Must Think Of Itself As Life-enhancing And Constitutively Opposed To Every Form Of Tyranny, Domination, And Abuse; Its Social Goals Are Noncoercive Knowledge Produced In The Interests Of Human Freedom.

What We Must Eliminate Are Systems Of Representation That Carry With Them The Authority Which Has Become Repressive Because It Doesn't Permit Or Make Room For Interventions On The Part Of Those Represented.