Okey Ndibe said this quote

“ What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead. ”

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Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.

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that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.

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Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.

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A story that must be told never forgives silence.

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