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Tahar Ben Jelloun

"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets."

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"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets."

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"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."

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"In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler."

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"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."

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"As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion."

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"Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels."

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"As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families."

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"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."
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