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The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn’t cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn’t cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.
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Domination Hands Kill War World
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
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Coward One Liner Tolerance
In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Adamant Brother Islam
Islam is not a race. Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not ‘Islamophobic’ to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
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Belief Democracy Islam Liberal Race Religion Simplicity
I love life more than I love death.
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Choice Death Life Love Myself
Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we’re seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it’s actually the conflation of religion and politics – every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress.
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Head Movement Politics Reason Religious See Woman
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance.
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Difference Huge Tolerance
If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
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Nation Status Well Young
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
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English Gratitude Language Learning Move
It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
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Cage Dissolve Mental Time
Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals.
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Acceptance Avoid Equality Offense Partner
Every time I went on TV I got a threat.
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Myself Threatening Time
Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.
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Family Parents True Yourself
I would rather clean than beg.
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Beg Cleaning One Liner
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.
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Apologize Defend Individual Liberal Movement People Right Treatment
My conscience is informed by reason. It’s like Kant’s categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
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Behavior Conscience Information Yourself

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