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"Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss."
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"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
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"How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination."
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