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Okey Ndibe, Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American Quotes: that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.
         

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


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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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