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“Invoking Martin Luther King, Jr, Cornel West once said that an activist is someone who is ‘maladjusted to injustice’. We should all be activists; I certainly am.”
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“I wrote Gbagba and Jaadeh! with the intention of starting a bloodless, ethical ‘revolution from below’, using children as my allies.”
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Days before America-Israel attacked #Iran unprovoked, I argued during a Public Forum in #Helsinki that the int’l rules-based order backs brute force. I gave examples incl. #Israel’s #genocide in #Gaza & #US aggression towards #Iran. Boy, were my words were prescient: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6_U...
— Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai.bsky.social) Mar 11, 2026 at 7:03
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