Edward Said Quote

The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously not desperate and poor refugee dwellers. They were middle class, educated enough to speak English, to be able to go to flight school, to come to America, to live in Florida.

Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said (ed. South End Press, 2003) - ISBN: 9780896086708