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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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As a 23-year-old, DC-based #journalist, I asked #Liberia’s Prez #Sirleaf publicly in March '06 how she planned to safeguard the country from exploitative #foreign #multinationals. Watch my intervention from 29:11-29:43 in this live #C-SPAN broadcast held at the #USIP: www.c-span.org/program/publ...
— Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai.bsky.social) 7:25 · Sep 9, 2026
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