Elif Safak Quotes
From populist demagogues, we will learn the indispensability of democracy. From isolationists, we will learn the need for global solidarity. And from tribalists, we will learn the beauty of cosmopolitanism.
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Karol Jozef Wojtyla
Lebanon is a country divided into religious sects which have a long history of animosity, distrust, violence among them. Few leaders were as candid as Jumblatt.
At the time racism and discrimination in the United States was not only rampant but legal. But change in many substrata of America was detectable and many intellectuals--writers, artists, scientists, educators, theologians, entertainers, groups who would later be called “elites” began to make themselves heard on the subject. Falkner was one whose novels had always taken an anti racist view point and now were overtly calling for political and social change.
America was the only democracy in the world. If it failed, democracy would not develop in the rest of the world. Today, most nations are democracies and in part based on the United States democracy. Lafayette realized that.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Elif Shafak, in Turkish Elif Şafak, is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, academic, public speaker and women's rights activist. In English she publishes under the anglicized spelling of her pen-name Elif Shafak.
