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Quote by Ibrahim Njoya
It is better to die than to live in shame.
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The quote presents shame as a condition so painful or dishonouring that death seems preferable to continuing to live with it. It expresses a stark value judgment, not a practical instruction for every situation.
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“笑いってなんなんだろうということは死ぬまで解決しないんだろうけど、そうやって死ぬまでお笑いに携わっていきたいなと思っています。”
“I respect everyone regardless of their status in society. It doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor.”
“Sometimes it's socially dangerous to stick up against what everybody knows is wrong, when a powerful few are profiteering nearby.”
““However, as we have always said, a thousand trials will not silence us.””
“For your own sakes, never appear ashamed that your father was a kaffir (Black man), and that you inherited African blood. It is every bit as good as that which flows in the veins of my fairer brethren.”
“My greatest dream for example was to die at liberty, so that they’d bury me without a number in the head.”
“As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned.”
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“A human rights activist has to be stubborn… it’s not your dignity, [you’re] fighting for other’s dignity.”
“I think that life where you don’t have dignity and where you don’t fight for people’s dignity is a wasted life.”
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