know the question people will ask when they hear I’ve taken up the cause of the Angola Three: Why me, why now, why 12,000 [miles] around the world to a remote prison to take up this case? And I am reminded of a quote I read on the wall of an Indian bank years ago. It was Gandhi who said, “Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him.” Albert Woodfox is not weak, by any means. But he, like his
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