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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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It was a pleasure doing this one-year retrospective of my 2024 Independence Day #National #Oration with one of #Liberia’s foremost #journalists Julius Jeh. His sharp questions, incisive commentary, and focus on the substance of my speech were refreshing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uww...
— Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai.bsky.social) 7:24 · Jun 17, 2026
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