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Quotes from Come September — Arundhati Roy

born 1961 India

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Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."

Come September (2002)

What does loss mean to individuals? What does it mean to whole cultures, whole people who have learned to live with it as a constant companion?

Come September (2002)

In the last ten years of unbridled Corporate Globalization...the numbers of poor in the world has increased by 100 million.

Come September (2002)

“The American Way of Life” is simply not sustainable. Because it doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

Come September (2002)

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

Come September (2002)

The U.S., which George Bush has called “the most peaceful nation on earth”, has been at war with one country or another every year for the last fifty [years].

Come September (2002)

Protecting its control of the world’s oil is fundamental to U.S. foreign policy.

Come September (2002)

Wars are...usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there’s the business of war...

Come September (2002)

How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain’s festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international conflicts of today.

Come September (2002)

This historical dredging is not offered as an accusation or a provocation. But just to share the grief of history. To thin the mists a little. To say to the citizens of America, in the gentlest, most human way: “Welcome to the World.”

Come September (2002)

The world is called upon to condemn suicide bombers. But can we ignore the long road they have journeyed on before they have arrived at this destination? September 11, 1922 to September 11, 2002 – eighty years is a long time to have been waging war.

Come September (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arundhati Roy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.