War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.

We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.

All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

We have to find a way of understanding how one category of sex can be "assigned" from both and another sense of sex can lead us to resist and reject that sex assignment. How do we understand that second sense of sex? It is not the same as the first - it is not an assignment that others give us. But maybe it is an assignment we give ourselves? If so, do we not need a world of others, linguistic practices, social institutions, and political imaginaries in order to move forward to claim precisely those categories we require, and to reject those that work against us?

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.