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" I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption. "

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" It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one. "

" The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here. "

" Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world. "

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