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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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“Dignity Must Define Us” was my #refrain as #Liberia’s 177th Independence Day Nat’l Orator in July 2024. I used it during a Feb 2026 Public Forum in #Finland to outline my #utopian vision for the world: #freedom from the #indignities of #capitalism, #racism & #sexism. www.youtube.com/shorts/00wrH...
— Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai.bsky.social) Apr 22, 2026 at 7:40
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