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“We talk far too much about citizenship as the acquisition of rights when we ought to be talking about it as the assumption of responsibilities.”
― Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
― Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
“the struggle for independence began to break out across Africa in the wake of World War II, more and more Indians found themselves uncomfortable staying in the middle. And once the fight for Kenya’s independence began in earnest, at some point you had to pick a side. As my father always told me, “In politics, if you sit on the fence, you get a splinter up your ass.”
― Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
― Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
“Our kitchen table was a place of open debate. We kept the traditions that were important to us, Indian food and Indian movies with my grandmother and religious instruction at the jamatkhana, but outside of those things, my parents believed that good things come from exposing yourself to lots of different ideas. Never once did they think of these outside influences as diluting or diminishing who we were or what was important to us.”
― Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
― Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
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